bagman
noun
dishonest official; a person who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
bagmen
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pluralof bagman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Huizar’s lawyers called Esparza and Kim, the alleged bagmen in the transaction, “admitted liars” who are “attempting to obtain leniency for their own crimes by cooperating with the government.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
At a caddie event for this week's AT&T Byron Nelson, Greller's fellow bagmen surprised him with a $25,000 check towards the John and Jane Greller Scholarship fund, which honors his parents.
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2019
But these are merely the movers of the money, the bagmen, the middle men.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017
Two-time champion Ben Crenshaw's long-time Masters caddie Carl Jackson is one of the remaining old school Augusta bagmen, who began working at the course aged 14 in 1961.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2014
The bagmen carry the story The circuit of Ireland round, And they sing it at fair and hurling From Edair to Acaill Sound.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
