Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
hit list, hit man (nn.)
These compounds have until fairly recently been underworld argot but both now are Conversational and Informal: a hit list is a list of people or organizations to be wiped out or at least opposed and injured or, by extension, a list of proposed sources to be approached in fund raising. A hit man is a person hired to murder someone.
