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rounder
noun- a migratory, transient worker, especially one living on the edges of legality US, 1908
Originally applied to railway workers. - I’m a piano player and a rounder, a whiskey drinker and a pavement pounder. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 176, 1947
- If you’ve ever been to a carnival, you’ll find most people there are “rounders,” so to speak. Not that they’re all pimps and whores, I’m not saying that, but I am saying that they hustle. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 196, 1972
- Rounders never stay in their pad unless it’s for a reason. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 140, 1981
- a street criminal CANADA
- Foote was what they call here in Canada a rounder. It’s a term that’s been used for more than twenty years to describe street criminals who operate around bars and clubs and hotels[.] — Thomas C. Renner and Cecil Kirby, Mafia Enforcer, p. 26, 1987
- a prisoner associated with traditional Italian-American organised crime US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 43, 1992
- a highly skilled professional poker player who travels and plays less skilled players US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 281, 1979
- Rounders, grifters, con artists, and thieves worked the area strip bars and pool halls[.] — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 48, 1993
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