1
chiefly British
: traveling salesman
2
: a person who on behalf of another collects or distributes illicitly gained money
broadly
: an intermediary in an illicit or unethical transaction
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Some of the suspects were bagmen, while others wielded hammers to smash display cases or guns to wield at employees or customers.
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Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2026
About nineteen of them seem to have been devoted to planning Melania’s big event, a candlelit dinner for MAGA backers and bagmen, including Bezos.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2026
Scott will not be back for the BMW Championship, and Scheffler will have a new bagman carrying his bag.
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Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
The woman, fearful of the threat that the FBI would arrest her, prosecutors say, followed the instructions and liquidated hundreds of thousands of dollars from her retirement savings to buy gold bars and then handed the bars over to the bagmen.
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Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Mar. 2025
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Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2026
About nineteen of them seem to have been devoted to planning Melania’s big event, a candlelit dinner for MAGA backers and bagmen, including Bezos.
—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 Feb. 2026
Scott will not be back for the BMW Championship, and Scheffler will have a new bagman carrying his bag.
—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
The woman, fearful of the threat that the FBI would arrest her, prosecutors say, followed the instructions and liquidated hundreds of thousands of dollars from her retirement savings to buy gold bars and then handed the bars over to the bagmen.
—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Bagman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bagman. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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