bagman
IPA: bˈægmʌn
noun
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
- (golf) A caddy.
- (Britain, dated) A staff assistant to a senior police officer (such as a Detective Sergeant for a Detective Inspector).
- (Britain) A secretary of (and keeper of equipment for) a Morris dancing side.
- (Australia, slang) A bookmaker.
- (Australia, dated, slang) A tramp, hobo.
- (UK, dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
- (US, politics, slang) An officer assigned to travel with the president and carry the "nuclear football".
- (Canada, politics, informal) A prominent fundraiser for a political party or similar cause
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Examples of "bagman" in Sentences
- Bagman does not need to be given an article of his own.
- The bagman may receive a fraction of the money collected.
- Bagman appears in the video game as a Quidditch announcer.
- Michael White's "bagman" Nate Gray went to jail for 15 years.
- Bagman is played using one 4 way joystick and one action button.
- "He was really like a kind of bagman," recalled McCartney later.
- He worked for them first as a precinct captain and later as their bagman.
- They called us "bagman" for our last article, and we were sure they would.
- Bagman even mentioned how oddly similar the Shadowpact and the Pentacle are.
- Nate Gray, who is currently in prison, was White's "bagman," and collected bribes for contracts.
- Of course, Wang was Lien Chan's bagman, which is why Lien openly supported him for the Chairmanship against Ma Ying-jeou.
- LaCava was the long-term bagman for Fred Couples, but the pair split when the veteran decided to reduce his playing schedule.
- LaCava had been the long-term bagman for Fred Couples but the pair split in the summer after the golfer reduced his playing schedule.
- 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.
- 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.