stoopers

Jesus Leonardo is the king of the "stoopers" -- people who pick up discarded betting slips at racetracks and betting parlors and double-check them to see if they're actually winners.

Boing Boing 2009

In the cross-town streets the steps of the old brownstone houses were swarming with "stoopers," that motley race hailing from sky-light room and basement, bringing out their straw door-step mats to sit and fill the air with strange noises and opinions.

Options O. Henry 1886

This means the ticket stoopers might have to find real jobs, too!

Gothamist 2010

Some people have taken their own lives (and on occassion taken the lives of their family members), gone into drunken stoopers, committed other crimes, or gotten divorced … how is this not a punishable crime the same as the one in this article?

Rachel Lucas 2009

Just as stoopers walk around the track, looking for winning tickets thrown out by mistake, Horvath and Simon have combed through Algren's old papers, hoping to find unpublished gems.

In These Times 2009

To his stable of OTB buddies, Mr. Leonardo is the Secretariat of stoopers.

Latest Articles 2009

"How can we, as an African nation, give any rights to 'stoopers and stabbers'?

Latest Articles 2009

There is an unwritten code in racing that says stoopers are tolerated as long as they are not perceived as harassing or stalking customers. "

Baltiblogs 2009

T.D. Thornton, a journalist who wrote about stoopers in his 2007 book, "Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track," said: "Stoopers are the gleaners of the racetrack world.

Baltiblogs 2009