Shoot full of holes detective involved in criminal job for hitman (10)
I believe the answer is:
contradict
'shoot' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'full of holes detective involved in criminal job for hitman' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
'detective' could be 'di' (Detective Inspector abbreviation) and 'di' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for contradict that I've seen before include "Argue against" , "Gainsay" , "Assert the opposite of (a statement)" , "Be in conflict with" , "Refute" .)