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High-binder
transf. Used abusively to denote a swindler, esp. a fraudulent politician.
1890 C. L. Norton Political Amer., Highbinders_applied_to political conspirators and the like.
1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 136 He's goin' to take copies of th' accounts that show what th' Chief an' them other high-binders at the top o' Tammany have been doin'.
1908 G. H. Lorimer J. Spurlock xii. 324 That's what I do mean---it [sc. the railroad]'s been stolen by that Bonsall bunch of high-binders.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap i. 21 So I left these two lady highbinders and went on into the retail side of the Family Liquor Store.
1952 in Wentworth & Flexner Amer. Dict. Slang (1960) 255/2 The winter meeting of the grand inner circle of high-binders at Miami Beach.
transf. Used abusively to denote a swindler, esp. a fraudulent politician.
1890 C. L. Norton Political Amer., Highbinders_applied_to political conspirators and the like.
1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 136 He's goin' to take copies of th' accounts that show what th' Chief an' them other high-binders at the top o' Tammany have been doin'.
1908 G. H. Lorimer J. Spurlock xii. 324 That's what I do mean---it [sc. the railroad]'s been stolen by that Bonsall bunch of high-binders.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap i. 21 So I left these two lady highbinders and went on into the retail side of the Family Liquor Store.
1952 in Wentworth & Flexner Amer. Dict. Slang (1960) 255/2 The winter meeting of the grand inner circle of high-binders at Miami Beach.
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