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
Stearns[stɜ:nz]
Avrum-Yiddish
ShamgarSHAM-gahr (English)Biblical
Chidimma-Western African, Igbo
JenniferJEN-i-fər (English)English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish
Aspasia-Ancient Greek