bagman
/bˈæɡmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Informal
noun
A caddy.
noun
A staff assistant to a senior police officer such as a detective sergeant for a detective inspector.
British usage; Dated
Example Sentences
- "The accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing."
- "You're going to pick up seven million dollars of cartel money? […] Jimmy, you are an attorney, not a bagman."
- "[…] in a locked metal suitcase carried on the President's travels by a warrant officer irreverently known as "the bagman.""
- "The bagman clutching the nuclear football like an undertaker at a wedding. Cameras flashed and clicked, recording the scene. 'Good morning, Mr President,' they chorused."
- "2016, David Akin, "Tory 'bagman' boasts about party's bank account, Toronto Sun, 28 May, Proud to call himself the "bagman" of the Conservative Party, former senator Irving Gerstein boasted about the financial health of his party Friday."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Norse baggibor.? Old French baguebor.? Middle English bagge English bag Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English bagman From bag + -man.