Definition of manslayer Manslayer
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What does manslayer mean?
WordNet
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| manslayer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | ||
| murderer, liquidator | ||
| criminal, malefactor, outlaw, felon, crook someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | ||
| slayer, killer a difficulty that is hard to deal with; "that exam was a real killer" | ||
| assassinator, assassin, bravo a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" | ||
| butcher a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | ||
| cutthroat someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | ||
| fratricide the murder of your sibling | ||
| triggerman, hitman, hit man, hired gun, gunslinger, gun for hire, gunman, shooter, torpedo, gun a professional killer who uses a gun | ||
| hatchet man, iceman one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | ||
| infanticide murdering an infant | ||
| mass murderer a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident | ||
| murderess a woman murderer | ||
| parricide the murder of your own father or mother | ||
| ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the Ripper was probably a madman" | ||
| serial killer, serial murderer someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval | ||
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Wiktionary 
- manslayer (Noun)
Someone who commits manslaughter.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- manslayer (n.)
One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
