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A hitman whose targets have six legs and better PR than the client.
means A person professionally hired to hunt down and kill pests like insects or rodents infesting a home or building.
from Rooted in the Latin exterminare — 'ex' (out, beyond) plus 'terminus' (boundary, limit) — meaning literally 'to drive beyond the border.' Originally it meant banishment, expelling someone past the frontier, not killing. Over centuries the sense curdled from 'drive out' to 'wipe out entirely,' and by the time bug-killing became a trade in the 20th century, 'exterminator' had fully shed its gentler, boundary-pushing roots for something far more final.
- real job
- mostly caulking gaps, not spraying poison
- bedbugs beat them
- survive most chemicals; heat is the real killer
- ancient trade
- romans used mongooses as living exterminators