brokester
n.— «The impoverished gangster barely eking out a living is so commonplace that mobsters have a word for these poorer men of honor: brokesters.» —“Some Made Men Struggle to Make Ends Meet” by William K. Rashbaum New York Times Dec. 10, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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