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单词 bagman
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bagmann.

/ˈbaɡmən/
Forms: Also bagsman.
Etymology: < bag n. + man n.1
1.
a. One who carries a bag.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > action of carrying > one who carries > of specific thing
pannier-bearer1451
basket-bearer1530
bagman1531
burden-bearer1580
hamperman1631
budget-bearer1684
boat-bearer1706
card carrier1845
basket-carrier1849
bag-carrier1890
1531 Bursar'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 (swagman n. (b) at swag n.1 Compounds 1). Australian.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings
swagman1851
swagger1855
swagsman1869
swaggie1892
bagman1896
drummer1898
battler1900
bindle-man1900
bindle-stiff1900
bluey-humper1903
bag lady1972
bag woman1977
1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 51 ‘So you're a native of Australia?’ said the bagman to the grey-beard.
1954 F. J. Hardy in Coast to Coast 76 I'd never been a real bagman... I'd taken work when it was offering.
1955 D. Niland Shiralee 26 Macauley watched him approaching and recognized him at once for what he was, a flat country bagman.
1959 S. 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 depreciative.)
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > commercial traveller
rideout1752
rider1752
outrider1762
traveller1790
commercial traveller1807
bagman1808
town traveller1808
commis voyageur1825
roundman1827
drummer1828
travelling salesman1833
bag woman1845
commercial1861
fieldman1875
outride1879
roundsman1884
knight of the road1889
representative1918
sales representative1949
sales rep1959
rep1973
1808 J. Wolcot One more Peep at Royal Acad. 16 The Bagmen, as they travel by.
1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall i. 3 In later days, when commercial bagsmen began to scour the country.
1865 Daily 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 (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > assistant who collects money
bagman1928
bag woman1960
1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Bagman (slang, U.S.), one to whom graft is paid.
1952 Sunday Times 3 Feb. 5/3 The term ‘bagman’ has recently made a place for itself in New York crime.
1952 Sunday Times 3 Feb. 5/3 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.
1954 Mockridge & 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.
1968 Listener 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.
1973 National 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.
1982 Times 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. Sporting slang. A bag-fox.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > game turned out of bag
basket-hare1665
bag-fox1736
bag-wolf1862
bagman1875
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > hunted
customer1590
bag-fox1736
ringer1832
bagman1875
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. ii. iv. §5 If..wild cubs cannot be found, a bagman or two must be obtained.
4. (See quot. 1924.)
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > official of the post > mail sorter
sorter1699
letter sorter1714
bagman1924
1924 Census 1921: Classif. Industries §759 Bagman [1927 Dict. Occup. Terms 'sorts and checks returned mail bags, and issues them as required'].
1927 Daily Express 12 Aug. 9/5 Various classes of Post Office workers..Liftmen..London porters, bagmen, [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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