Related Clues:

• Termination, figuratively
• Hacker's tool
• Sever
• Terminate
• Fire, so to speak
• The Tin Man's prop
• Tool
• It's given to some losing managers
• Drop from the payroll
• Chopping tool
• Gardening aid
• Cut drastically
• It may be coiled, but it never strikes
• Good feller?
• Brutally destroy