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单词 highbinder
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highbindern.

Brit. /ˈhʌɪˌbʌɪndə/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbaɪndər/
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps compare high adj. 11.Hide-binders is apparently found later as a name for the same gang referred to in quot. 1806, and in later sources they are sometimes reported to have been a gang mainly of butchers' boys; if so, perhaps compare hide n.1 A connection with bender n. 5 has also been suggested.
U.S. slang.
1. A violent criminal; a gangster. Also in weakened sense: an unruly or disreputable person; a rowdy, a rogue. Now rare.Originally as the name of a New York City gang in the early 19th cent.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
1806 N.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.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) High-binder, a riotous fellow. New York slang.
1889 Amer. Notes & Queries 22 June 95/1 I have heard the word commonly used for forty years, usually in the sense of a ruffian or highwayman, or as a rebuke to a child, ‘You little highbinder’.
1916 E. R. Burroughs Return of Mucker 58 Some..highbinder's bound to croak you.
1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 54 There were enough of the high-binders to give the Federals the reputation which they will have for many a year after the Eighteenth Amendment is buried.
1961 New Yorker 28 Jan. 28/2 From his perky velvet dicer to the tips of his English brogues, he was as brash a highbinder as ever scurried out of Sardi's.
1983 D. C. Perry Bag Man xix. 185 ‘Who is this cold-blooded highbinder she's chasing?’... ‘Some desperado called Mappin.’
2. Originally and esp. in California: a member of a Chinese secret society or criminal gang; esp. an extortioner or an assassin. Now historical.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > Chinese secret societies > member of
triadists1855
highbinder1875
boxer1899
1875 San Francisco Bull. 23 Jan. The operations of a thieving gang of Chinese, known as the Highbinders, who collect tribute from the brothels under threats of violence and murder.
1888 Public Opinion (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 193 The power of the Highbinder is the only one which the average Chinaman understands and fears.
1926 A. G. McAdie Man & Weather ii. 35 Suey Dip, an alleged Chinese highbinder, was caught by the police after the killing of another Chinaman.
1969 Black Belt Mar. 42/1 The tongs have enough highbinders with their hatchet men.
2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. vi. 85 The tongs jealously guarded their..property, hiring ‘highbinders’—associations of Chinese thugs.
3. derogatory. A fraudulent or unscrupulous person, originally and esp. a politician.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
1890 C. L. Norton Polit. Americanisms 54 Highbinders,..a term applied..to political conspirators and the like.
1903 A. 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'.
1952 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 10 Mar. 4/4 The winter meeting of the grand inner circle of high binders at Miami Beach.
1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 25 He was turning into a pol, another spoils-mongering highbinder and wire-puller, one more bum on the plush.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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