remittance man
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of remittance man
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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We did not ask each other’s business there; and, judging by the dogs and gun, we put him down as a ‘remittance man.’
From Project Gutenberg
In one version the Murphy character is a used-car salesman in the Bronx who falls in love with Shivas’s daughter and winds up a remittance man in Tahiti.
From New York Times
Asked me did I know that you were a remittance man who had forfeited his allowance and that your partner was a steamboat mate who’d been fired out of his ship.
From Project Gutenberg
She didn't approve of me because I was an idler and presumably a remittance man.
From Project Gutenberg
The timber wolf I trimmed out because he wasted around like a remittance man.
From Project Gutenberg
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