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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Everyone knew that Max Homa will have a new caddie for The Masters this week after his longtime bagman left for Justin Thomas.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 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
Collin Morikawa's trusted bagman, J.J. Jakovac, snagged the annual Caddie Competition winner title at TPC Sawgrass's 17th hole.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Doll’s action unleashes a cascade of karmic consequences, most of them violent and some perpetrated by him, that culminate in the investigator being set up to take the fall for the killing of a young female tourist and being pursued by bounty hunters sent by that cartel bagman.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 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
Collin Morikawa's trusted bagman, J.J. Jakovac, snagged the annual Caddie Competition winner title at TPC Sawgrass's 17th hole.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Doll’s action unleashes a cascade of karmic consequences, most of them violent and some perpetrated by him, that culminate in the investigator being set up to take the fall for the killing of a young female tourist and being pursued by bounty hunters sent by that cartel bagman.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Bagman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bagman. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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