highbinder
Definitions
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- noun A swindler, especially a corrupt politician.
Examples
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The Senator is just not the highbinder you may have imagined.
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Remember, Mawruss, you got to tell him that as a partner I am a crank and a regular highbinder.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures
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Takes one of these old-fashioned beer bottles with patent stoppers, fills it up with unslaked lime, pours in a little water, stops it up, drops it in a likely looking trout pool, and in one minute it explodes as good as something made by a Russian patriot; all the trout in the pool are knocked out and float on the surface, where this old highbinder gathers 'em in.
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And we have to protect them from raiding from the Wall Street-type, highbinder banks.
Note
The word 'highbinder' comes from the name of a nativist gang that flourished in New York City in the early 19th century, possibly an alteration of 'hide' + 'binder'.
