The phrase "a hitman of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is a hired killer or assassin, often in a fictional or criminal context.
Example: "He was known as a hitman of the notorious crime syndicate that operated in the shadows of the city."
Alternatives: "an assassin for" or "a contract killer of".
The occasion for all of these puns is Rudd's alleged hiring of a hitman to assassinate two unknown men.
British businessman Shrien Dewani agreed to pay about £1,300 to a hitman for the murder of his wife Anni in South Africa, a court has been told.
Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, is accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife Anni.
Shrien Dewani, 34, from Bristol, is accused of hiring a hitman to murder his wife.
In related news, Logitech has been accused of hiring a hitman for an anonymous murder in an affluent Washington State neighborhood.
Dalia Dippolito, the Florida newlywed convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her husband, has been released from jail on a $500,000 bond.
- A former Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at gunpoint was convicted of hiring a hitman to try to kill said teenage accuser.
It once again features that film's star, Viggo Mortensen - this time as a Russian hitman of indeterminate sexuality, living in London - and co-stars Naomi Watts, one of the most consistently interesting actresses of the moment.
If Corbijn had wanted to make a truly modern film on the practical routine of a hitman, a more useful point of comparison would have been to Chantal Akerman's 1975 film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles," in which Delphine Seyrig portrays a middle-class woman who supports herself and her son through prostitution.
