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cool-off man
noun
in a confidence swindling or cheating scheme, the member of the swindling group who stays with the victim calming him down after he learns that he has been swindled US, 1977- “To do this you had to have mechanics who could control the games, broads who would entertain the suckers, and a cool-off man who, after a sucker had been stripped of his money, could calm the sucker down and make him feel like he’d had a good run for this money.” — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 214, 1973
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 52, 1987
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