| 单词 | numbers man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnumbers man numbers man n. (a) U.S. slang a person involved in the running of a numbers game; (b) colloquial a person who is responsible for financial matters, or who is adept with or who lays great emphasis upon figures or statistics. ΚΠ 1963 O. Harrington in Freedomways Fall 519 Nobody covers as much Harlem territory as the numbers man. 1985 T. Ferguson Onyx John vii. 187 He blackmailed and hijacked and extorted. For years, the police had considered him to be a minor pimp and a numbers man. 1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1989) xiii. 161 Numbers-men from all thirteen parties went mum, eyes darting frantic signals to their minorities to cool it for fear of losing their seats. 1998 C. Barker Galilee i. 5 Jefferson the great rationalist, the numbers man, obliged to believe the evidence of his own eyes. < as lemmas |
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