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Road agent   /roʊd ˈeɪdʒənt/   Listen
Road agent

noun
1.
A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.  Synonyms: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker.






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"Road agent" Quotes from Famous Books



... expectant that they would be. He called aside one of them whom he knew, declined a clergyman, and confessed to a murder or so in Missouri and in California, admitted that he had been imprisoned once or twice, but denied that he had been a road agent. He accused some of his warmest friends of the latter crime. Jack Gallegher, also under arrest, heard him thus incriminate himself and others of the gang and called him all the names in the calendar, telling ...
— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough



Words linked to "Road agent" :   stickup man, hijacker, footpad, holdup man, Dick Turpin, padder, Turpin



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