hit job

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes. slang
    — Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan.
  2. A publication launched to damage the reputation of person or company. slang
    — One of the first critics to latch onto Where's the Rest of Me? was the journalist Jessica Mitford. In February of 1965, Esquire’s Harold Hayes assigned Mitford a profile of Reagan as a politician—a potentially valuable piece of national exposure. But Reagan stopped cooperating when he sensed, correctly, that Mitford wanted to write a hit job, calling her "the vengeful Miss Mitford" in a letter to William F. Buckley.

词形变化

hit jobs plural hit-job alternative hitjob alternative

词源

From hit + job.
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