Words at Play : Top 10 Authorisms
Definition:
: a person trained in ancient Japanese martial arts and employed especially for espionage and assassinations
About the Word:
The term and concept of the ninja was introduced into English by British spy novelist Ian Flemming in the 1964 James Bond novel You Only Live Twice. It was popularized by such works as Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 film Enter the Ninja. The term has proliferated to the point that a 2013 Google search for the word yielded 427 million hits.
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