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JIMMY HOFFA

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JIMMY HOFFA (noun)
  The noun JIMMY 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)play

  Familiarity information: JIMMY HOFFA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JIMMY HOFFA (noun)


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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