long knife



long knife

1. n. an assassin. (Underworld.) Some long knife showed up, but Marty took him out before he made his move.
2. n. a destroyer; a hatchet man. One of his long knives came over to pressure us into cooperating.
See also: knife, long

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Abraham['eibrəhæm]
Amse-Frisian
ErinER-inEnglish, Irish
Vira-Ukrainian
Juliezhuy-LEE (French), YOO-lee-e (Danish), YUW-lye (Czech), JOO-lee (English)French, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese
Edita-Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Lithuanian