This is because ‘to hit’ can of course mean “to punch someone” in English, and then ‘ler’ is the present tense of the Norwegian word for “to laugh”. Put these words together and it made some amount of sense to me to imagine old “hit-laughs” as someone who hits people and then laughs at their pain, in other words a bully, a sadist, or otherwise a cruel villain.
I thought Espresso was called Expresso because it has lots of caffeine and so makes you go fast, like you’re in the express train.
I also thought the black market was like, a physical location you could buy illegal stuff.