| 释义 |
small-timeˈsmall-time adjective   - a small-time drug dealer
- Most of Jenkins' articles were about small-time police corruption.
- Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure.
- Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street.
- It was either small-time crookery or the docks, and I thought, well, the crookery's better, really.
- It was not an astonishing one, in the context of a small-time drugs network.
- Robert Burke, a Hartley regular, is Bill McCabe, a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl.
- The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.
- What we are is a nation of small-time sinners, which is not per se unusual nor even particularly bad.
- With the rise of the bond markets, the equity salesmen and traders had been reduced by comparison to small-time toll takers.
NOUN► crook· The crows meanwhile have taken on another persona of small-time crooks.· A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks, petty crime and drinking clubs. ► small-time crook/gangster etc- The crows meanwhile have taken on another persona of small-time crooks.
small-time crook/gangster etc a criminal who is not involved in large or serious crimes—small-timer noun [countable] |