(n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
Example Sentences:
(1) By discussing the name of the slush fund on an application for its incorporation, it says, “Julia Gillard’s conduct in this respect must be regarded as a lapse of professional judgment, but nothing more sinister.” The report does recommend Victorian and West Australian authorities consider fraud charges against Wilson and his union “bagman”, Ralph Blewitt.
(2) So hardly a journalist by most definitions; more of a bagman on his own account.
Batman
Definition:
(n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
(n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
Example Sentences:
(1) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(2) For my money, Batman should be teamed up with the Burka Avenger .
(3) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(4) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
(5) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
(6) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
(7) Jim Carrey, his Batman Forever co-star, said he “scared the hell out of me”.
(8) Miles, a Batman fan, had one wish: “To be Batkid.” Make-a-Wish reached out through email and social networks, asking for help making Miles’s wish come true.
(9) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(10) US diplomats believe Medvedev is "Robin to Putin's Batman" and Putin will try to get back the post he held from 2000 to 2008, according to documents disclosed by WikiLeaks earlier this month.
(11) Batman v Superman this week became the highest-grossing superhero film of 2016 so far, overtaking Deadpool, and is the second highest-grossing movie overall behind Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK).
(12) The pilot for the plan is The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman blockbuster – currently No 7 on the list of all-time box-office grossers, and holder of several sales records for DVD and Blu-Ray.
(13) It is, however, good to see more obscure members of Batman's rogue's gallery given the spotlight.
(14) And for the next few years Batman dropped out of the global conversation.
(15) Maybe instead of being assembled in different formations – such as the Marvel Avengers, or Superman and Batman – American superheroes could benefit from a sort of cultural exchange programme.
(16) Batman Forever was not very good and Batman & Robin was terrible.
(17) More on Ben Affleck as Batman • News: Ben Affleck signs up for Batman role • Peter Bradshaw: Ben Affleck is perfect for Batman ... as director, not star
(18) In fact, I struggle to think of something more emasculating for Batman than that – and that's before you consider that Catwoman apparently does it for him with a big, phallic rocket.
(19) Summerville hinted that Affleck would eventually make for a seriously beefy Batman .
(20) PSG’s official account tweeted a Vine on Tuesday afternoon with the supporting video flicking through various masked movie characters and superheroes, from Batman to Zorro, Spider-Man to Darth Vader, Iron Man to Kylo Ren.