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Dillinger

[ dil-in-jer ]

noun

  1. John, 1902–34, U.S. bank robber and murderer.


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Example Sentences

But somehow she had succeeded in erasing her fingerprints where Dillinger and many other criminals had failed.

When they subsequently managed to fingerprint her, she seemed to have outdone Dillinger.

She had been far more content than Dillinger had been to be a prisoner there.

The reporter noted that they have now grown back—so perhaps she had not managed to outdo Dillinger, after all.

He was tough and came to attention when gangsterism, [John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Flood], and organized crime was at its height.

"I never feel as though I'm talking to him," expostulated Professor Dillinger to a sympathetic colleague.

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