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paper-hanger
noun- a criminal whose expertise is the use of fraudulent securities US
- “You’re not a paper hanger, and you’re not a small fry pusher, and you’re not even a booster.” — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 160, 1954
- The distrust felt toward paperhangers, for instance, is based on the nature of these offenses and on firsthand experience with the men who commit them. — Saturday Evening Post, p. 72, 6 October 1962
- They grabbed a paper hanger in a bank. A broad. She’s singing for a deal. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 140, 1981
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint: Language and Culture in a Maximum Security Prison, p. 519, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 85, 1996
- in trucking, a police officer writing a ticket US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 23, 1976
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