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bagman
noun- a person who collects, makes or holds illegal payments US, 1935
- Tom (“Sailor”) Burke had been the sheriff’s “bag man,” had delivered $36,000 in payoff money to the sheriff’s wife and had gotten signed receipts for the boodle. — Time, p. 18, 24 July 1950
- The defendant was described by the court as a “bagman” or collector for “higher-ups” in the (police) department. — New York Times, p. 1, 3 September 1952
- The “pad” refers to regular weekly, biweekly, or monthly payments, usually picked up by a police bagman and divided among fellow officers. — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 66, 1972
- I’ll bring you to a guy in the Fourth who is the division bagman. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 261, 1973
- They’d say you were the bag man for the whole fucking borough. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 119, 1977
- Turns out the cop was the biggest bagman ever. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 247, 1979
- — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, 1982
- In front of them were the bag men from the chief inspector’s squad, the borough squads, and the PC’s squad of the New York police Department. All in plain clothes. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 3, 1982
- Once a day, the policy man handed over his slips and his cash to a runner or “bag man,” who took them to the headquarters. — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 140, 1993
- It’s tougher to buy the cheapest bagman than it is to buy a cop. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- a bookmaker AUSTRALIA
- They had worked up a good connection with punters, who were enticed by the offer generally of a point above the odds being shouted by in the ring by the registered bagmen. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 182, 1956
- At the end of the day Mr. Wilson, who had kept betting and doubling up, had accumulated liabilities of £2,000 with the bagmen. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 140, 1966
- With exaggerated nonchalance, Harry tossed the roll of fifties to the bagman. — Gerald Sweeney, The Plunge, p. 29, 1981
- No names no pack drill but one prominent old-time bookie insists that a flag he sponsors at Tatts be flown at half-mast whenever another bagman is in the Club. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 213, 1988
- a bookmaker’s clerk AUSTRALIA, 1973
- Ray became an expert on the front bag which was an education in itself. The bag man was the first on which all the tricks and shifty dodges were tried. — Clive Galea, Slipper!, p. 26, 1988
- in the circus or carnival, a person who makes change for customers, often cheating them US
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 13, 1980
- a member of a shoplifting team who carries away the stolen goods AUSTRALIA
- — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
- a drug dealer; a person in possession of drugs US
- — Richard E. Haorman and Allan M. Fox, Drug Awareness, p. 463, 1970
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 26, December 1970
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 25, 1996
- an itinerant man carrying his possessions in a bag; a swagman AUSTRALIA, 1866
- There was poor old Lasher, the ex-bagman, the drifter, with a lot of beer to be drunk, a lot more brawls to start, and Masie, perhaps. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 199, 1954
- We were working a train from Alpha to Bega and were just out in traffic when we found a bagman riding the buffers. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 182, 1969
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