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Fagin definition

Fa·gin (fā′gən)

noun

an adult who induces young people to engage in criminal activity

Etymology: after the character in Dickens' Oliver Twist

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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