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HOFFA
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• HOFFA (noun)
The noun HOFFA has 1 sense:
1. United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)
Familiarity information: HOFFA used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hoffa; James Riddle Hoffa; Jimmy Hoffa
Instance hypernyms:
labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)
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"People are enemies of that which they don't know." (Arabic proverb)
"He who has money and friends, turns his nose at justice." (Corsican proverb)