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bagwoman

[ bag-woom-uhn ]

noun

plural bagwomen.
  1. a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bagwoman1

First recorded in 1970–75; bag + -woman
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Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department.

Later, in a TV interview, he called Mrs. James "a bagwoman for the police department."

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