Any slang word for "debt-collector"?( specially among gangsters & criminals!)
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00:00 Any Slang Word For &Quot;Debt-Collector&Quot;?( Specially Among Gangsters &Amp; Criminals!)
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juice man (noun phrase, slang):
a hoodlum who collects money owed to a racketeer
'a 'juice man' (loan collector) for syndicate hoodlum bosses (1950s+ underworld)'
Source: Dictionary.com
juice collector (slang):
one who collects the money (juice) owed to a bookmaker or a loan shark
Source: Wiki
Books containing references to the above terms:
The Black Book and the Mob. Farrell, R. & Case, C.
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A heavy-handed collector of 'Mafia' type debts is sometimes known as a leg-breaker (per 'yourdictionary'). Another more general term would be enforcer
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Shylock: slang a debt collector
The word shylock, which has been used to refer to loan sharks, is an eponym from a Jewish character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
A quick survey of TIME’s archives reveals 119 articles that use the word. Many of those are articles about The Merchant of Venice and Philip Roth’s book Operation Shylock — but the last time it was used casually, without reference to the character, was in a 1977 story about the mafia: “A new soldier starts at the bottom, breaking in as a senior thug’s driver, bodyguard or shylock debt collector.”
This excerpt is from When Did ‘Shylock’ Become a Slur?, which was written by Lilly Rothman for the Time Magazine Website and published on 09/17/2014. | Archival links: Archive.is/Wayback Machine
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"Loan shark" -- although that would be the lender more than the collector, if the two roles are disparate.