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bagwoman
[ bag-woom-uhn ]
noun
plural bagwomen.
- a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
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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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