number runner

Two of the men picked up that day were known numbers runners.

And to others, including two cops on the take, he is a numbers runner.

They walked along, and today the number runners were careful to keep out of sight.

His memory for figures would be the envy of any numbers runner.

The tough part to take was that the number runner was probably right.

Hijackers aren't like numbers runners - that's why they don't make good employees.

She was both a devout Christian and a sassy numbers runner.

Let's take, for instance, some numbers runners who had some trouble the other day, got beat up and money taken from them.

In the old days numbers runners used the business pages in the newspapers.

What does a second-rate numbers runner know about money?

Rizzoli started as a numbers runner, and then became an enforcer.

Numbers runners of the past could never rope in a huge audience with mass advertising on billboards and television.

Neighbors said he had also worked as a small-time bookmaker and numbers runner.

Numbers runners, dope dealers and prostitutes do little or no business in the turmoil.

Rinehart seems to be some kind of a con man, a numbers runner, a gambler.

He said of numbers runners who openly collected their bets across the street: "You're not going to stop this.

But what could a beat cop do when he knew his captain was getting paid off for allowing the number runners to ply their trade?

The city has a smoothly running network of ticket scalpers, numbers runners and drug dealers.

This doesn't stop one heist, nor one numbers runner from operating, you know!

Who needs numbers runners when you have stickball!

They'd hit all the numbers runners, dealers, small-timers, and extortionists they could find to try to get a lead to the top.

The first-generation progenitors were a plumber, a domestic and a numbers runner.

At one point a tape was played in which a party fund-raiser could be heard urging the chief of police to go easy on numbers runners.

Instead, still grinning, the number runner said between his teeth, "Boys will be boys, eh?"

Later, gambling dens and numbers runners were rousted.