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bagman

[bag-man, bag-muhn] / ˈbægˌmæn, ˈbæg mən /






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His experience demonstrates that far from ridding sports of backroom deals and bagman boosters, the deluge of legal NIL money incentivizes and gives cover to the illicit market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Their first mission, which is to track a bagman with a suitcase in the Madrid airport is a nifty sequence, which gets the film off to a good start.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023

Braun singled out Chiang, an admitted bagman, as especially untrustworthy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Then Lalo decided that Jimmy’s version of his bagman travails — that he simply had car trouble and then walked all night — had holes in it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

His boots, tied together, were slung over the horse's neck, and in short he looked more like a bagman than an officer, from the number of things he had hanging about him.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

He goes through bagmen at a rate of knots.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024

Huizar’s lawyers called Esparza and Kim, the alleged bagmen in the transaction, “admitted liars” who are “attempting to obtain leniency for their own crimes by cooperating with the government.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

Going into the pro caddie profession: It was a rough year for player-caddie breakups – I’m still not over the Phil-Bones split – but a recent trend doesn’t seem to bode well for professional bagmen.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 12, 2017

But these are merely the movers of the money, the bagmen, the middle men.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017

When he was not entertaining bagmen, he was either at Bradford painting bad portraits, or at Haworth pouring out verses, fearfully long, fatally fluent verses, and writing hysterical letters to the editor of Blackwood's Magazine.

From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair




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