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controller noun a mid-level operative in an illegal gambling enterprise who is in charge of a number of runners US- A controller might have as many as fifty runners working for him, and the controller got five percent of what he turned over to the banker. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 85, 1964
- A lot of the junkies started sticking up the numbers writers and sticking up the controllers. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 191, 1965
- A banker usually has working for him several “controllers,” each of whom in turn controls a number of runners. — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 79, 1972
- Then you got to be an administrator; then you got labor problems–what controller is humpin’ what runner’s wife. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 30, 1975
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