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bagman: a person or paymaster designated to collect or distribute illicitly gained money. barone: a baron or landlord. [3] books, the: a phrase indicating membership in the family. If there is a possibility for membership, then the books are open. If not, the books are closed. boss: the head of the family who runs the operation. [3]
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.
The pizzo (Italian:) is protection money paid to the Mafia often in the form of a forced transfer of money resulting from extortion. The term is derived from the Sicilian pizzu ('beak'). To "let someone wet their beak" (Sicilian language fari vagnari u pizzu) is to pay protection money.
Blinder" was a familiar Birmingham slang term, still used today, to describe something or someone of dapper appearance. [3] A further explanation might be from the gang's own criminal behaviour. They were known to sneak up from behind, then pull the hat peak down over victims' faces so they could not describe who robbed them. [4] [5]
A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high or illegal interest rates, has strict terms of collection, and generally operates outside the law, often using the threat of violence or other illegal, aggressive, and extortionate actions when seeking to enforce the satisfaction of the debt. [1]
Getty Images From "Christmas" to "Duke City," the residents of Albuquerque have a local language all of their own. Read on for a list of the top 10 Albuquerque slang terms and slang
Sex, Money, Murder (also known as Sex Money Murda, S.M.M., or $.M.M.) is a "set" of the Bloods street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States. The gang was formed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in the Soundview Houses, a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development.