英语词汇“number-man”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

number-man n. †(a) a man who sells weekly or monthly publications (obsolete); (b) U.S. slang = numbers man n. at Compounds 2b.

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1813 in Notes & Queries (1905) 28 Jan. 66/2 Those subscribers..who choose to be accommodated with the Apocrypha may now be supplied by giving orders to the..Number-men.

1866 J. Blackwood Let. 21 Dec. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) IV. 321 The ‘Number Men’, i.e. men who sell the weekly and monthly publications in large numbers.

1932 Baltimore Brevities 23 Nov. 11/3 The number man whose initials are J. K. is due for a big pull-in soon unless he stops putting his clients' dough in his pockets.

1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 146 Number-man, anyone engaged in the policy numbers racket.

单词	number-man
释义	> as lemmas number-man number-man n. †(a) a man who sells weekly or monthly publications (obsolete); (b) U.S. slang = numbers man n. at Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1813 in Notes & Queries (1905) 28 Jan. 66/2 Those subscribers..who choose to be accommodated with the Apocrypha may now be supplied by giving orders to the..Number-men. 1866 J. Blackwood Let. 21 Dec. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) IV. 321 The ‘Number Men’, i.e. men who sell the weekly and monthly publications in large numbers. 1932 Baltimore Brevities 23 Nov. 11/3 The number man whose initials are J. K. is due for a big pull-in soon unless he stops putting his clients' dough in his pockets. 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 146 Number-man, anyone engaged in the policy numbers racket. extracted from numbern. < as lemmas
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