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Definition of bagman in English: bagmannounPlural bagmen ˈbaɡmənˈbæɡmæn 1Australian NZ US informal An agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities. 〈美，澳/新西兰，非正式〉收取（或分发）非法收益的人 Example sentencesExamples - It includes a column each for each bagman/shark, organized vertically with the relevant yacht, how much Duke scored from the given bagman, which house he helped with, and so forth.
- And, just about every day, I drove past the so-called bagman of Toowong.
- The money was collected nightly by Mafia bagmen, their suitcases bulging with huge quantities of disappearing cash.
- Finally, enough people realized what was going on and grabbed the fancy-dancers - but the bagman got away.
- The gang stole purses or pulled jewellery from women on buses or in cars, he became an expert pickpocket, lookout and bagman for the gang.
- But still, the man could sing like nobody else, even if he did have a tasty little part-time job as a Mafia bagman.
- Freelance bagmen by the barriers hold up fingers to communicate the prices to punters too far back to hear the odds they're shouting: money is passed back and forth over the heads of the crowd in anxious, but honest, fistfuls.
- I've seen mafia bagmen with more integrity.
- Picked as the ransom bagman, Callahan is run ragged by Scorpio, but eventually the pair meet in the dead of night in a lonely park (with Chico lurking in the background).
- Four innocent bystanders were injured by ricocheting bullets when a bagman for a Pattaya loan shark opened fire on his mobile phone.
- PC was a car-dealer turned bagman for a three-year president of Brazil later impeached for corruption.
- Geoffrey Lewis plays an aging bagman buddy of Sarno who gets involved in the kidnapping affair.
- They are now learning that the bagman was allegedly operating a one-for-you, two-for-me scheme.
- A very peculiar, literate yet threatening bagman, Fred, accosts him.
- He was aided and abetted by a one-time car salesman whose verbal skills and shady book-keeping saw him become a kingmaker and bagman.
- Pitt is playing one of his loose-limbed slacker roles, Jerry Welbach, a hapless bagman already in debt to the criminal fraternity and now ordered to do one last mobster job south of the border.
- Chidduck sends his bagman, Sarno, to talk to the punks in a Mexican bordello where they're hiding out.
- After that he disappeared again, displaced by a parade of Mafia bagmen and enforcers, clearly thrilled by the opportunity to refresh their faded notoriety.
- Currently in a middleweight state, he delivers a good turn here, as does the barrel-chested James as the millionaire's grizzled bagman.
2Canadian A political fundraiser. 〈加〉政治集资者 for a brief time he was chief bagman for both the provincial Liberal and Conservative parties Example sentencesExamples - Infighting is not confined to politicians and their bagmen: they're at it in academe too.
- In essence, these select fund-raisers serve as bagmen for the president.
- These lobbyists are like bagmen spreading manna from media heaven.
- There are bagmen who continue to dole out largesse, including brown bags of cash to certain helpful officials at Christmas time.
- Victory flows from the pouch of a bagman as much as the barrel of a gun.
3British dated, informal A travelling salesman. 〈英，非正式，旧〉旅行推销员 Example sentencesExamples - They were written in the buttonholing style of a bagman selling the latest thing in hoovers and washing machines.
- He was attracted to the idea of the travelling salesman or "bagman" as a commonplace figure of the poetic wanderer, the flaneur, the 18th century bachelor.
- Then, as naively as if he were a bagman selling rubbish to a fool, Chullunder unfolded his proposal to the gravely nodding woman.
- William continued to run the business alone and because of his natural ability as a salesman, he was nicknamed 'Billy the Bagman'.
- It encourages the tick trader and the travelling bagman to persuade people to buy in the belief that they will not have to pay all at once, that they can pay in instalments.
Definition of bagman in US English: bagmannounˈbæɡmænˈbaɡman 1Australian US NZ informal An agent who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities. 〈美，澳/新西兰，非正式〉收取（或分发）非法收益的人 one million dollars cash paid to the general's bagman Example sentencesExamples - The money was collected nightly by Mafia bagmen, their suitcases bulging with huge quantities of disappearing cash.
- The gang stole purses or pulled jewellery from women on buses or in cars, he became an expert pickpocket, lookout and bagman for the gang.
- Currently in a middleweight state, he delivers a good turn here, as does the barrel-chested James as the millionaire's grizzled bagman.
- Picked as the ransom bagman, Callahan is run ragged by Scorpio, but eventually the pair meet in the dead of night in a lonely park (with Chico lurking in the background).
- It includes a column each for each bagman/shark, organized vertically with the relevant yacht, how much Duke scored from the given bagman, which house he helped with, and so forth.
- But still, the man could sing like nobody else, even if he did have a tasty little part-time job as a Mafia bagman.
- After that he disappeared again, displaced by a parade of Mafia bagmen and enforcers, clearly thrilled by the opportunity to refresh their faded notoriety.
- They are now learning that the bagman was allegedly operating a one-for-you, two-for-me scheme.
- Chidduck sends his bagman, Sarno, to talk to the punks in a Mexican bordello where they're hiding out.
- Pitt is playing one of his loose-limbed slacker roles, Jerry Welbach, a hapless bagman already in debt to the criminal fraternity and now ordered to do one last mobster job south of the border.
- Geoffrey Lewis plays an aging bagman buddy of Sarno who gets involved in the kidnapping affair.
- PC was a car-dealer turned bagman for a three-year president of Brazil later impeached for corruption.
- Finally, enough people realized what was going on and grabbed the fancy-dancers - but the bagman got away.
- And, just about every day, I drove past the so-called bagman of Toowong.
- He was aided and abetted by a one-time car salesman whose verbal skills and shady book-keeping saw him become a kingmaker and bagman.
- I've seen mafia bagmen with more integrity.
- Four innocent bystanders were injured by ricocheting bullets when a bagman for a Pattaya loan shark opened fire on his mobile phone.
- Freelance bagmen by the barriers hold up fingers to communicate the prices to punters too far back to hear the odds they're shouting: money is passed back and forth over the heads of the crowd in anxious, but honest, fistfuls.
- A very peculiar, literate yet threatening bagman, Fred, accosts him.
2Canadian A political fundraiser. 〈加〉政治集资者 Example sentencesExamples - In essence, these select fund-raisers serve as bagmen for the president.
- Victory flows from the pouch of a bagman as much as the barrel of a gun.
- There are bagmen who continue to dole out largesse, including brown bags of cash to certain helpful officials at Christmas time.
- These lobbyists are like bagmen spreading manna from media heaven.
- Infighting is not confined to politicians and their bagmen: they're at it in academe too.
3British dated, informal A traveling salesman. 〈英，非正式，旧〉旅行推销员 Example sentencesExamples - Then, as naively as if he were a bagman selling rubbish to a fool, Chullunder unfolded his proposal to the gravely nodding woman.
- It encourages the tick trader and the travelling bagman to persuade people to buy in the belief that they will not have to pay all at once, that they can pay in instalments.
- He was attracted to the idea of the travelling salesman or "bagman" as a commonplace figure of the poetic wanderer, the flaneur, the 18th century bachelor.
- They were written in the buttonholing style of a bagman selling the latest thing in hoovers and washing machines.
- William continued to run the business alone and because of his natural ability as a salesman, he was nicknamed 'Billy the Bagman'.
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