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ˈhigh-ˌbinder U.S. slang.
[f. high a. 14: cf. bender 5, hellbender.]
1. A rowdy; one of a gang which commits outrages on persons and property.
1806Weekly Inspector 27 Dec. last p., An association calling themselves ‘High-Binders.’ 1806N.Y. Evening Post 26 Dec. 2 A desperate association of lawless and unprincipled vagabonds, calling themselves ‘High-binders’..during the last winter, produced several riots. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., High-binder, a riotous fellow. New York slang.
2. One of a secret society or gang said to exist among the Chinese in California and other parts of the United States for the purpose of blackmailing and even of assassination.
1876San Francisco Call 27 Mar. 1/7 Refined ladies could no longer submit to be jostled at the church door by the Mongolian chiffonier or high-binder. 1887Amer. Missionary Aug. 235 The High-Binders were already on his track, and he scarcely feels safe even in Oakland. 1888Pub. Opinion (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 193 The power of the Highbinder is the only one which the average Chinaman understands and fears, and his conduct is regulated by it to a greater extent than by the laws of the country in which he lives. 1892Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 10 Dec. 12/1 The Italian Mafia is a dangerous enemy to law and order, like the Chinese ‘highbinders’ of California.
3. transf. Used abusively to denote a swindler, esp. a fraudulent politician.
1890C. L. Norton Political Amer., Highbinders..applied..to political conspirators and the like. 1903A. H. Lewis Boss 136 He's goin' to take copies of th' accounts that show what th' Chief an' them other high-binders at the top o' Tammany have been doin'. 1908G. H. Lorimer J. Spurlock xii. 324 That's what I do mean—it [sc. the railroad]'s been stolen by that Bonsall bunch of high-binders. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap i. 21 So I left these two lady highbinders and went on into the retail side of the Family Liquor Store. 1952in Wentworth & Flexner Amer. Dict. Slang (1960) 255/2 The winter meeting of the grand inner circle of high-binders at Miami Beach. |