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banker
noun- a usurer, an illegal lender of money US
- How can I figure Bill Ray–he knows the streets like I know the streets–gets a case of the stupids and brags to Pachoulo that he’s got a new banker? — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 73, 1988
- a criminal who controls a stock of forged currency notes UK, 1966
- a person with a large sum of gambling money AUSTRALIA
- I’ve brought two hundred myself–and I’m small bikkies compared to these bankers. — Robert English, Toxic Kisses, p. 82, 1979
- the operator of an illegal numbers racket or lottery US
- A numbers banker? — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 102, 1959
- They couldn’t be trusted by numbers bankers any more. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 191, 1965
- There was no problem getting the free-lance Negro bankers out of business. — Mario Puzo, The Godfather, p. 252, 1969
- The bankers pay them [the police] off. — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 116, 1970
- Around Harlem, he’d feed off the policy bankers. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 17, 1975
- in a functionally compartmentalised illegal drug operation, the person who receives payment for drugs bought US
- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 269, 1987
- a creek, river, etc, full to overflowing AUSTRALIA, 1848
- If this keeps up she’ll be running a banker this afternoon and the river will come down as well. She’ll be in flood, for sure. — Allan Skerman, Beyond Indigo, p. 424, 1989
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