cutthroats
Merciless hired murderers
Cutthroats are people willing to kill or destroy others to get what they want—murderers, ruthless competitors, or anyone who operates without moral restraint.
The word suggests cold-blooded self-interest: The industry is full of cutthroats who'd ruin you for a nickel.
A cutthroat trout is a species marked by red slashes under the jaw, as if its throat had been cut.
Those who kill unlawfully
- assassinsKillers of important people
- killersThose who cause death
- thugsViolent criminals
- banditsArmed robbers, often roving
brigands · pirates · outlaws · rogues · villains · desperadoes · highwaymen · gangsters
Those who compete
- sharksLarge predatory fish
- predatorsAnimals that kill prey
- opportunistsThose exploiting any advantage
- hustlersThose who deceive for profit
schemers · backstabbers · conniving · ruthless · underhanded · ambitious · merciless · unscrupulous
Hinged bare blades for shaving
- bladesSharp flat cutting parts
- SheffieldSouth Yorkshire manufacturing city
- barberProfessional who trims locks
- shavingRemoving hair with blade
honing · stropping · folding · vintage · collectible · sharpening · steel · edge
Indigenous freshwater game fish
- YellowstoneOriginal U.S. national park
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- Snake RiverNorthwestern tributary waterway
- BonnevilleColumbia River hydroelectric dam
greenback · Colorado River · flyfishing · salmonid · spawning · threatened · conservation · endemic
murderers
Those who kill unlawfully
bandits · brigands · pirates · outlaws · rogues · villains · desperadoes · highwaymen · gangsters · henchmen
rivals
Those who compete
- sharksLarge predatory fish
- predatorsAnimals that kill prey
- opportunistsThose exploiting any advantage
hustlers · schemers · backstabbers · conniving · ruthless · underhanded · ambitious · merciless · unscrupulous · aggressive
straight razors
Hinged bare blades for shaving
- bladesSharp flat cutting parts
- SheffieldSouth Yorkshire manufacturing city
- barberProfessional who trims locks
shaving · honing · stropping · folding · vintage · collectible · sharpening · steel · edge · handle
native trout
Indigenous freshwater game fish
- YellowstoneOriginal U.S. national park
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- Snake RiverNorthwestern tributary waterway
Bonneville · greenback · Colorado River · flyfishing · salmonid · spawning · threatened · conservation · endemic · watershed
- roguesrogue, rogues, scoundrel, scoundrels, rascal
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
- tough guystough guys, tough guy, thug, thugs, enforcer
cutthroatssaints
Canonized religious figures
good people · angels · humanitarians · altruists · innocents
cutthroatspacifists
Those opposing all warfare
peacemakers · doves · peaceniks · conscientious objectors · Quakers
- cutthroat mentalityWillingness to harm others to succeed
- cutthroat troutNative western fish, marked jaw