highbinder
Americannoun
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a swindler; confidence man; cheat.
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a dishonest political official or leader.
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a member of a secret Chinese band or society employed in U.S. cities in blackmail, assassination, etc.
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a ruffian or rowdy.
noun
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a gangster
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a corrupt politician
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(formerly) a member of a Chinese-American secret society that engaged in blackmail, murder, etc
Etymology
Origin of highbinder
Example Sentences
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And twelve for Tessie, and eight for this highbinder on my knee, here!
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Remember, Mawruss, you got to tell him that as a partner I am a crank and a regular highbinder.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass
Finally he questioned with soft cheer: "And what sort of a highbinder are you?"
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
So I wasn’t going to have Beatrice’s husband a cutthroat and a highbinder as he would have to be if he had turned the whole trick.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
We have pegged those stocks where the slump would be most demoralizing and already this highbinder, Burton, has smashed those pegs like match-stems.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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