Meaning of bloodspiller | Babel Free

Definitions

One who spills blood.

Examples

“But I maun hear naething about honour—we ken naething here but about credit. Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent, honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”

“I reckon to rush them right out of the way with a charge, firing our Winchesters, and yelling ‘Muerto, filhos de Vittorio!’ for they are of that old sinner’s ancient crew—‘Death to the Apash bloodspillers!’”

“Back in the day, Marquez remembered, the Archangel Crips had been as hard as they come, big bailers and broad-daylight bloodspillers, the kind of game you brought in tied spread-eagle to the hood of your black-and-white with sirens wailing—a Frank Buck parade through the hood on your way back to the station—letting the Waziri know you had their backs.”

“The old man had style, making up his own laws, and decreeing who lived and who died. But they were his laws and his words and his melodrama, and without that murderous bunch of bloodspillers he bribed into following him, he wasnt^([sic]) much more than a squeaky mouse.”

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