Definition of "henchman" []

• A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate. (noun)
• A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests. (noun)
• A member of a criminal gang. (noun)
• Obsolete A page to a prince or other person of high rank. (noun)

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• "By the time he gets around to killing her, however, Ferguson has sent his own man -- so Victor kills him just as the henchman is about to shoot Rose, then hires himself out to Rose as a bodyguard."
• "She took an ax to the father who'd shot her and whose albino henchman is on the lam and killing cops, and she's being prosecuted?"
• "Hero empties his shotgun into the main henchman, then drops the shotgun to draw his six-shooter and pinks another gang member."