[ noun ] someone who assists in a plot <noun.person>
Henchman \Hench"man\ (h[e^]nch"man), n.; pl. {-men} (-men). [OE. hencheman, henxman; prob. fr. OE. & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is akin to D. & G. hengst stallion, OHG. hengist horse, gelding.] An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
"The president himself has to be accountable for the activities of his henchman," Brown said in a statement.
Constanzo then ordered de Leon Valdez to kill him and his henchman, Martin Quintana Rodriguez.
He was under the personal protection of Stalin's henchman Anastas Mikoyan, then commissar for the food industry, who invited Yegorov to return to take over Massandra in 1936, despite his pre-revolutionary connection.
Then a henchman tiptoes in and whispers that an enemy has been killed.