bagman
bagman — 名詞
- bagmansingular
- bagmansplural
1. a person who handles cash that came from criminal activity, picking it up from o
白手套
為犯罪組織收取或運送非法款項的人
a person who handles cash that came from criminal activity, picking it up from one party and passing it to another so that the person running the operation never has to touch the money directly.
The police arrested the gang's bagman as he walked out of the casino with a duffel bag full of cash.
警方在該幫派的收錢人提著裝滿現金的行李袋走出賭場時將他逮捕。
collocation: gang's bagman / mob's bagman
Baraka worked as a bagman for a construction company, delivering envelopes of cash to city officials.
Baraka 在一家建築公司擔任收錢人，負責把裝著現金的信封送到市府官員手中。
pattern: work as a bagman for [organisation]
Investigators traced the payments through three different bagmen before reaching the senator's office.
調查人員追查了三個不同層級的收錢人後，才追蹤到參議員辦公室。
The trial revealed that the mayor's cousin had been the main bagman for the kickback scheme.
庭審內容顯示，市長的表弟就是那起回扣案的主要白手套。
In the movie, the mob boss never touches the money — he sends a bagman to collect it instead.
電影裡黑幫老大從不親手碰錢——他派一個收錢人去收取。
- money courier
more neutral and broader; a bagman is a specific type of illegal money courier for a criminal operation
- go-between
wider in scope — covers any intermediary, not just money; bagman is specifically about cash
- intermediary
formal; bagman is informal and criminal-specific
- front man
close synonym but front man can also refer to someone who hides a business's true ownership, not just money collection
文法句型
work as a bagman (for [someone])
act as a bagman
用法筆記
Almost always used in the context of organised crime, political corruption, or illegal gambling. The word carries a strong negative judgment and is never neutral.
常見錯誤
2. a salesperson who travels from place to place to visit customers and sell goods,
推銷員
到各地拜訪客戶的流動推銷員（舊用法）
a salesperson who travels from place to place to visit customers and sell goods, especially in rural or remote areas where there are no shops — a term that was common in the early-to-mid 20th century before large retail chains expanded.
Eli's grandfather was a bagman who drove a Model-T Ford across three states selling kitchen supplies.
Eli 的祖父當年是一名到處跑的推銷員，開著一輛Model-T福特汽車跑遍三個州賣廚房用品。
register: dated — common in early-to-mid 20th C
In the 1940s, a good bagman could make a living visiting farms and small towns with a suitcase of samples.
在1940年代，厲害的推銷員帶一箱樣品跑農場和小鎮，就能賺到不錯的收入。
pattern: a bagman + selling / visiting customers
The company employed a team of bagmen to cover the rural districts that had no general stores.
這家公司僱了一組業務員，負責跑那些沒有雜貨店的偏遠鄉村地區。
My great-aunt remembers ordering cloth from a bagman who stopped by her farmhouse every spring.
我姑婆還記得每年春天會有推銷員到她家農舍來，跟她推銷布料。
- traveling salesperson
modern, gender-neutral equivalent
- traveling salesman
the older masculine form, also dated but more widely known
- commercial traveler
British term, even more dated
- field sales representative
formal, current business terminology
文法句型
work as a bagman
用法筆記
This sense is now old-fashioned. In modern English, 'traveling salesperson', 'sales rep', or 'field sales representative' are used instead. The word survives mainly in historical writing or nostalgic accounts of early 20th-century commerce.