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cleaner
noun- in the used car business, a customer who does not have a car to trade in US
- It’s a cleaner but he’s got no D.P. so I sent him to the happy man and now I find they couldn’t get together because he’s got no sticks. — San Francisco Examiner, p. II–1, 24 February 1956
- a hired killer US
- Tiny stars placed on the arm in any fashion indicate that the wearer is a hitter (also known as a “cleaner” or “torpedo”). — Bill Valentine, Gangs and Their Tattoos, p. 36, 2000
- in circus and carnival usage, the person who retrieves money from paid players who have been allowed to win a concession game to drum up business US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 55, 1981
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