英语词汇“note、shaver”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

note-shaver

释义

ˈnote-shaver U.S. slang.
[f. note n.²]
A promoter of bogus financial companies; a usurer.
1816Massachusetts Spy 4 Sept. (Th.), We have too many note-shavers; too many gentlemen.1851Hawthorne Ho. Sev. Gables xviii, The wrinkled note-shaver will have taken his railroad trip in vain.1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 194 His father 'd always been thought one of the biggest note-shavers in New York City.1905D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 11 But my clients were poor, and poor pay, and slow pay. Nobody was doing well but the note-shavers.1911R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter viii. 113 Old Eph Tucker was a note-shaver long before he was a politician, and he's got note-shavin' in his blood bigger'n a mule.1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang ix. 520 Shaver, note shaver, a discounter of notes at an exorbitant rate.

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