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bagman|ˈbægmən|
Also bagsman.
[f. bag n. + man.]
1. a. One who carries a bag.
1531Bursar's Bk. Durh. (1844) 98 Willelmus Potter, bag⁓man [a waged officer of the convent], per annum xiis.
b. A tramp (who carries his personal effects in a bag); a swagman (swag n. 12). Austral.
1896H. Lawson While Billy Boils 51 ‘So you're a native of Australia?’ said the bagman to the grey-beard. 1954F. J. Hardy in Coast to Coast 76 I'd never been a real bagman... I'd taken work when it was offering. 1955D. Niland Shiralee 26 Macauley watched him approaching and recognized him at once for what he was, a flat country bagman. 1959S. J. Baker Drum 86 Bagman's gazette, a non-existent publication quoted as a source of rumour, esp. in the country.
2. a. spec. A commercial traveller, whose business it is to show samples and solicit orders on behalf of manufacturers, etc. (Somewhat depreciatory.)
1765Goldsm. Ess. i, The bag-man..was telling a better story. 1808J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Peep R. Acad. Wks. 1812 V. 360 The Bag-men as they travel by. 1815T. Peacock Headl. Hall 2 In later days when commercial bagsmen began to scour the country. 1865Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 5/4 A traveller—I mean a bagman, not a tourist—arriving with his samples at a provincial town.
b. One who collects or administers the collection of money obtained by racketeering and other dishonest means. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1928Funk's Stand. Dict., Bagman (slang, U.S.), one to whom graft is paid. 1952Sunday Times 3 Feb. 5/3 The term ‘bagman’ has recently made a place for itself in New York crime. Ibid., A bagman is one who administers the collection of graft money from either the underworld or the business world and its subsequent distribution among politicians and civil servants. 1954Mockridge & Prall Big Fix 234 Nobody believed, either, that Jim Moran kept all of the money he collected. For many years he had been known as a bagman, which in political jargon, is literally the man who carries the bag or boodle for somebody higher up. 1968Listener 19 Sept. 376/2 Does all this simply mean that one of the Syndicate's bagmen has moved into the Master's Remsenburg NY neighbourhood. 1973National Times (Austral.) 25–30 June 18/3 The money is always paid in cash, by personal contact in a pub or a car. The police ‘bag man’ will call once a month to collect. 1982Times 19 June 5/1 Furino was known in gangland parlance as a ‘bagman’... He used to make payments and pick up money on behalf of Mafia mobsters.
3. In sporting slang: A bag-fox.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. ii. iv. §5 If..wild cubs cannot be found, a bagman or two must be obtained.
4. (See quot. 1921.)
1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §759 Bagman (Post Office); sorts and checks returned mail bags, and issues them as required. 1927Daily Express 12 Aug. 9/5 Various classes of Post Office workers..Liftmen..London porters, bagmen, [etc.]. |