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  • noun Plural form of knifeman.

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Examples

  • It is difficult to imagine a Jew in Hollywood — each one more self-conscious than the next — portraying Jews as vengeance-seeking knifemen.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • It is difficult to imagine a Jew in Hollywood — each one more self-conscious than the next — portraying Jews as vengeance-seeking knifemen.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • It is difficult to imagine a Jew in Hollywood — each one more self-conscious than the next — portraying Jews as vengeance-seeking knifemen.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • It is difficult to imagine a Jew in Hollywood — each one more self-conscious than the next — portraying Jews as vengeance-seeking knifemen.

    Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger 2009

  • Needless to say, judging by what I have read in the TLS, many have not yet accepted the inevitable, cannot agree among themselves let alone with anyone else, do not want to proffer their own agenda for cuts and are still going to be arguing when the knifemen come knocking.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Needless to say, judging by what I have read in the TLS, many have not yet accepted the inevitable, cannot agree among themselves let alone with anyone else, do not want to proffer their own agenda for cuts and are still going to be arguing when the knifemen come knocking.

    Scalpel, machete, razor, bread knife 2010

  • Needless to say, judging by what I have read in the TLS, many have not yet accepted the inevitable, cannot agree among themselves let alone with anyone else, do not want to proffer their own agenda for cuts and are still going to be arguing when the knifemen come knocking.

    Scalpel, machete, razor, bread knife 2010

  • The real meaning, said Paul Macek, a historian in Webster, a community of about 17,000 just northwest of where Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts intersect, is "English knifemen and Nipmuck Indians at the boundary or neutral fishing place."

    languagehat.com: SOME JUST CALL IT WEBSTER. 2004

  • When her husband, who was working nightshift at the time of the attack, returned to the fire-damaged house early Tuesday morning, he was attacked by three knifemen believed to have been involved in the shooting of his family hours before.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The older wench hired a bevy of knifemen to see that Emilio would have nothing to offer another woman.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

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