Meaning of button man | Babel Free

Definitions

A contract killer; a professional assassin.

slang

Examples

“I was called a "buffoon" in the paper of record, the New York Times, and the Washington Post described me fondly as "Clinton's gunsel," his button man”

“"Twenty years ago, he was Little Pete Drago, a button man for the boys on Mulberry Street. He's probably got twenty notches on his piece”

“But death is never symmetrical and tidy, and the button man had nothing to say.”

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