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booster bag
 n.— «Such activities are no more right than the robber with a gun, a shoplifter with a “booster bag,” or a crook making purchases by using other people’s credit cards.» —“Harvesting Fruits of New Morality” by Ferdie J. Deering Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) Apr. 16, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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