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What does henchman mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word henchman? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
  2. A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
  3. An assistant member of a criminal gang.
  4. (obsolete) A page to a prince or other person of high rank.
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Mr. Duffy, it happened, was Big Bill Duffy, a jolly henchman of Owney Madden, the racketeer.
A hitman who asks no questions and creates no trouble, Michael Sullivan is a loyal henchman to ageing Irish mobster John Rooney.
He is more my own kind, and some day he will make a henchman of the afterguard and a mate like Mr. Pike.
She told Giancarlo, the henchman of the merchant from Trebizond, that I was in your service.
In greedy desperation, Oberon plans to distract Titania by having his impish henchman Puck slip her a mickey, causing her to fall in love with something repulsive.
He doesn't know that the bar owner has paid off the cops, and the bartender is a henchman who hustled votes for the judge.

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