Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang A person who collects money, as for racketeers.
- noun Chiefly British A traveling salesman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carries a bag; especially, one who travels on horse back carrying samples or wares in saddle-bags: a name formerly given to commercial travelers, but now used only as a term of moderate contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal A person who
collects ,transports , ordistributes illicit money , especially for the purpose ofbribery ,extortion , or the making of otherimproper payments .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a salesman who travels to call on customers
- noun a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
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Examples
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LaCava was the long-term bagman for Fred Couples, but the pair split when the veteran decided to reduce his playing schedule.
BBC News - Home 2011
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LaCava had been the long-term bagman for Fred Couples but the pair split in the summer after the golfer reduced his playing schedule.
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When Andres was appointed Minister of Communications & Information (MinCI) the first time around -- post-Recall Referendum -- he committed perhaps his career's greatest folly by bringing in Yuri (I've been a revolutionary for 25 years) Pimentel as his Vice Minister ... an appropriate title since Yuri had (and still has) many vices that are ever more apparent in this current mishandling of just about everything at Venezolana de Television (VTV), to which presidential sinecure he was appointed after not achieving much at TeleSur, where he immediately had fitted squarely into the round hole as Izarra's "bagman" -- something that journalist Miguel Salazar so aptly illustrated in a recent issue of his 'Verdades de Miguel' political magazine ... and that's been a thorn in the butts of the Tom & Jerry team of Izarra/Pimentel for more time than they care to remember.
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Of course, Wang was Lien Chan's bagman, which is why Lien openly supported him for the Chairmanship against Ma Ying-jeou.
Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006
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But Gallagher's bid suffered untold damage when he flubbed the campaign's final TV debate Monday and fueled the impression that he had been a "bagman" - a collector of undisclosed and potentially corrupt donations - for Ireland's most ethically challenged party, Fianna Fail.
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They called us "bagman" for our last article, and we were sure they would.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various
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Nate Gray, who is currently in prison, was White's "bagman," and collected bribes for contracts.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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Michael White's "bagman" Nate Gray went to jail for 15 years.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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"He was really like a kind of bagman," recalled McCartney later.
Expecting Rain 2009
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"He was really like a kind of bagman," recalled McCartney later.
Expecting Rain 2009
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