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单词 lobby-gow
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lobby-gown.

/ˌlɒbɪˈɡaʊ/
Etymology: Etymology unknown.
U.S. slang.
An errand-boy, messenger; a hanger-on, underling, esp. in an opium den or in the Chinese quarter of a town.
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1906 I. Swift Sketches of Gotham 41 The lobbygows—the errand men of the Chinese—the whites, who execute commissions for them,..saw and noted this Queen also.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. x. 248 She was in the clutch of one of the lobbygows—men who live by lying in wait in the darkness to seize and rob the lonely, friendless fast woman.
1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 80 A ‘lobbygow’—a Chinaman who acts as stool pigeon and informer for the police.
1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society ix. 295 I 'ain't gunna have her think Stevey's tied up with a bunch of lobby-gows.
1930 D. H. Clarke Louis Beretti ii. 22 He ran errands for the girls, which made him a lobby-gow in the original meaning of the word.
1956 ‘T. Betts’ Across Board xii. 177 He flung away fortunes in grubstakes to bums, heels, and lobby-gows.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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