| 词汇 | bagman |
| 词源 | bagman. In America bagman means a racketeer or anyone assigned to collect a bribe, extortion, or kidnapping money. In England, however, a bagman is simply a traveling salesman, a drummer who carries bags of samples. “In former times,” one authority tells us, “these commercial travelers used to ride a horse with saddle bags sometimes so large as almost to conceal the rider.” |
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