highbinder

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Finally he questioned with soft cheer And what sort of a highbinder are you Skag answered that he was an American, acquainted with wild animals in captivity, and that he had come to this place to know wild animals in the open But why to me?"

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  1. noun A corrupt politician.
  2. noun A member of a Chinese-American secret society of paid assassins and blackmailers.

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  1. After the Highbinders, a group of ruffians in New York City c. 1806.

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  1. A slang term of no precise meaning, from high, prob. used allusively, as in high jinks, highfalutin, “a high old time,” etc., + binder, supposed to be a variation of bender, meaning one who goes on the sort of spree so called.
 

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/ˈhaɪbaɪndər/
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