highbinder如何读

英:['haɪˌbaɪndə]

美:['haɪˌbaɪndə]

highbinder是什么意思

  • n.(被雇暗杀人的)恶棍;美国华人区黑社会中的党羽

highbinder英英释义

noun

a professional killer operating in the Chinese quarter of an American city

a corrupt politician

highbinder词源英文解释

the Highbinders, gang of ruffians in New York City about 1806

The first known use of highbinder was in 1876

highbinder 例句

1 It was something of a relief to recognize him now, nevertheless it is never safe to trust a highbinder, for murder and robbery is their trade.

2 And Boss Tolley, Tom Hicks, and them other highbinders can sulk in their dens and suck their paws.

3 "But them highbinders want thirty-two dollars and twenty cents, American gold."

4 I’m smarter than most of the men round these parts but I’d be fleeced properly by the New York band of highbinders if I tried to go among them.

5 Petey was highbinder of the gang that year and was very far gone in crime.

6 Her next question was, "Have you ever been a highbinder?"

7 Finally he questioned with soft cheer: "And what sort of a highbinder are you?"

8 Remember, Mawruss, you got to tell him that as a partner I am a crank and a regular highbinder.

9 So I wasn’t going to have Beatrice’s husband a cutthroat and a highbinder as he would have to be if he had turned the whole trick.

10 They sent on to 'Frisco for some highbinders—those professional killers, you know—and Wah Lee got wind of the fact that he was one of the victims marked for slaughter.

11 There were lights in one wing of the house, and another appeared behind the fan-light in the entrance-hall when the leader of the three highbinders had tramped up the steps and touched the bell-push.

12 "It's no use talking, Lidgerwood," he began, "I can't do business on this railroad until you have killed off some of the thugs and highbinders."

13 I was following Terrill when he gets into a gang of highbinders, and goes into one of these rooms over here a ways.

14 One of the mandates of this delectable nest of highbinders is that no headquarters of the Union of the lumber workers shall ever be permitted within the sacred precincts of the city of Centralia.

15 "Now," said Mr. Tutt, "I will call a few witnesses to show you what kind of a man this is whom these highbinders accuse of the crime of murder!"

16 "He's one of the ringleaders of that gang of highbinders," answered Tom.

17 Wouldn't I look well, now, handing four hundred pounds over to those highbinders?

18 Then I added with pardonable mendacity: "I think I must have been taken for somebody else, if it was anything more than a desperate freak of the highbinders."

19 And twelve for Tessie, and eight for this highbinder on my knee, here!

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