numbers runner
Street lottery courier
A numbers runner is someone who collects bets and delivers winnings for an illegal lottery, historically common in urban American neighborhoods before state lotteries existed.
The runner served as intermediary between bettors and the operation's organizers: His uncle worked as a numbers runner in Harlem during the 1950s.
- lotteryRandomized prize distribution
- racketeeringConducting illegal business schemes
- bag manIllicit funds courier
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- jackpotAccumulated gambling prize
tenement · bookie · ledger · sting operation · cash flow · speakeasy · odds · bootlegger · prohibition · money laundering · bribery · undercover agent · hustler · extortion · fraud · pawnshop · indictment · counterfeit currency
- gambling crimesillegal gambling, illegal casino, match fixing, race fixing, point shaving
- numbers racketbookie, banker, controller, collector, straight bet
- criminalsmurderer, thief, burglar, criminal, killer
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
- sports bettingodds, bets, bookmaker, bet, sportsbook
- hustlershustler, hustlers, street hustler, con artist, grifter
number, numbers, numbered, numbering, numberless, numeral, numerals, numerate, numeration