bag job
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bag job
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Your husband has pulled off the ultimate bag job, and now he wants to show up with a kitten, which is tantamount to announcing, “We’re the ones who killed your widdle puddy tat!”
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2021
The Ellsberg "bag job" was similar to the illegal activities authorized under an intelligence plan that Nixon admits had his approval briefly in 1970.
From Time Magazine Archive
After getting approval from Krogh, Hunt flew to Miami to enlist help in the Ellsberg bag job.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has said that he was told about it by Egil Krogh, who directed the plumbers, shortly after the bag job was carried out in 1971.
From Time Magazine Archive
Normally spies didn’t want to be seen on the way to a black bag job, but they weren’t particularly worried.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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