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runner
noun- in an illegal betting operation, a person who physically collects and pays off bets placed with sheet writers US
- He don’t come around hisself. De runners do all the work. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 43, 1947
- I mean today’s last number. Ain’t you Rine the runner? — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 491, 1947
- Police-sellers, bookmakers’ runners, reefer peddlers and junk salesmen are employed by an organization which protects them also. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, pp. 48–49, 1951
- The daily small army of runners got ten percent of the money they turned in[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 85, 1964
- If you could be a numbers runner, you’d make about seventy-five dollars a week[.] — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 191, 1965
- At that time the numbers were controlled by “Jews” in Newark and they used colored men as runners. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 7, 1967
- I think the flat is a check-in station for so called runners and writers who turn in their bet books and cash, less their earned twenty percent. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 97, 1969
- I was glad Daddy was a number runner and not just hanging around the corners like those men. — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 15, 1970
- Etienne has the best runners in Harlem. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 30, 1975
- He was a numbers runner just a few years older than my fourteen. — Piri Thomas, Stories from El Barrio, p. 54, 1978
- When his runners and sheet writers called he told them to sit on their totals another day or so and he’d get back to them. — Elmore Leonard, Pronto, p. 44, 1993
- a prison inmate who collects dues for a baron (a powerful criminal whose influence is built on illegal trading) UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- someone who carries illegal drugs between dealer and purchaser US
- Normally, a runner makes $250 and he’s on his own. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 164, 1972
- They’ve got Roy booked as Mister Big and me and Tony as just simple dumb runners, the Joeys as the top lawman had called us. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 159, 1999
- a clerk or collector for a street bookmaker UK, 1934
- Watching the increasingly animated signals of Graeme Souness, who might have been auditioning for the job of a bookie’s runner, proved a good deal more entertaining[.] — The Guardian, 3 March 2003
- somebody sent to buy alcohol for others US
- — American Speech, p. 276, December 1963: “American Indian student slang”
- in the television and film industries, an errand-running production assistant US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmmaker’s Dictionary, p. 143, 1990
- a deserter from the armed services; an escapee from prison or borstal UK, 1959
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 100, 1996
- in the language surrounding the Grateful Dead, a fan who queues before a show and then quickly claims space for friends who will follow US
- — David Shenk and Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key, p. 252, 1994
▶ do a runner
to escape by running away; to abscond; to leave hastily UK, 1981- You think I’m going to do a runner? — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 8, 1984
- Steven’s does a runner. — The Guardian, 7 February 2002
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