Usually means: Mercilessly aggressive, sparing no one.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word take no prisoners:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. take-no-prisoners, take no prisoners: Merriam-Webster
  2. take no prisoners: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. take-no-prisoners: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. take no prisoners: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take no prisoners: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. take-no-prisoners, take no prisoners: Wiktionary
  7. take-no-prisoners: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. take-no-prisoners, take no prisoners: Dictionary.com
  9. Take No Prisoners (David Byron album), Take No Prisoners (Molly Hatchet album), Take No Prisoners (Peabo Bryson album), Take No Prisoners (video game), Take no prisoners (disambiguation), Take no prisoners: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. take-no-prisoners: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take no prisoners: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take no prisoners: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take no prisoners: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take no prisoners)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To be uncompromising.
▸ verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, prisoner.

Similar:
stop at nothing, go the whole hog, pull out all the stops, go all out, spare no effort, give one's all, butt heads, stick at nothing, leave no stone unturned, spare no expense, more...

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stop at nothing, go the whole hog, pull out all the stops, go all out, spare no effort, give one's all, butt heads, stick at nothing, leave no stone unturned, spare no expense, more...



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