lifetaker
nounEtymology From life + taker.
1
A murderer; an assassin.
- ‘I don't know hell's first whisper about you. You might be a lifetaker for all I know.’1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 86:
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