highbinder
/ˈhaɪˌbaɪndər/
noun
- A swindler or dishonest person who uses trickery to cheat others.
- The old town was full of highbinders looking for easy victims.
- The highbinder promised to double their money but disappeared with it.
- Be careful of highbinders who offer too-good-to-be-true deals online.
- A member of a secret criminal organization, especially in historical Chinese-American communities.
- The movie portrayed a highbinder as a ruthless enforcer for the tong.
- Historians still debate the true power of the highbinders in 19th-century San Francisco.
- The highbinder gang controlled much of the illegal gambling in the district.