1
chiefly British
: traveling salesman
2
: a person who on behalf of another collects or distributes illicitly gained money
broadly
: an intermediary in an illicit or unethical transaction
Examples of bagman in a Sentence
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Mann’s cops, criminals, and scheming bagmen are more typically consumed by their deadly passions.
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John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
The release of Saab, long regarded by Washington as a bagman for Maduro, is a significant concession to the Venezuelan leader.
—Joshua Goodman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
Manton deployed a network of fixers, bagmen, and front men who helped to identify sources of bribes, negotiate the terms, and conceal the proceeds inside a maze of opaque financial arrangements.
—Time, 25 July 2023
Kathy Griffin’s uncle was a bagman.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
What about Selina’s bagman, Gary?
—Yvonne Villarreal Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2020
The episode is gritty (literally — it was shot in the late ’80s and shopped to another network) and follows the mugging and consequential death of a local councilman and erstwhile bagman.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2022
The bagman and Li’s brother-in-law pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses, while charges against the wife were dropped.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
As part of an ensemble that pushed political satire to cynical and expletive extremes, Mr. Hale won both his Emmys for playing the bagman to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s White House bumbler, Selina Meyer.
—John Jurgensen, WSJ, 29 June 2021
John Semley, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
The release of Saab, long regarded by Washington as a bagman for Maduro, is a significant concession to the Venezuelan leader.
—Joshua Goodman, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
Manton deployed a network of fixers, bagmen, and front men who helped to identify sources of bribes, negotiate the terms, and conceal the proceeds inside a maze of opaque financial arrangements.
—Time, 25 July 2023
Kathy Griffin’s uncle was a bagman.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
What about Selina’s bagman, Gary?
—Yvonne Villarreal Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2020
The episode is gritty (literally — it was shot in the late ’80s and shopped to another network) and follows the mugging and consequential death of a local councilman and erstwhile bagman.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2022
The bagman and Li’s brother-in-law pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses, while charges against the wife were dropped.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
As part of an ensemble that pushed political satire to cynical and expletive extremes, Mr. Hale won both his Emmys for playing the bagman to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s White House bumbler, Selina Meyer.
—John Jurgensen, WSJ, 29 June 2021
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