"fagin" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1911, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work: A History of Our Time - Volume 22, page 14847:",
          "text": "From February until the following October, Latsky was daily in the streets with the \"fagins,\" who made much of him; for at ten years of age he was admitted to be one of the very cleverest of all the young thieves on the East Side.",
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          "ref": "1954, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 8, Issues 1-6, page 118:",
          "text": "You can always find a fagin or a madam for a kid. I don't know how prices are now — when I was thirteen, I brought fifty dollars.\" Norvell, his hair standing on end, said, \"You?\" \"I guess I was lucky — they sold me to a fagin, not into a house.",
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          "ref": "2006, Hanna Wallinger, Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change, →ISBN, page 67:",
          "text": "Native Speaker does not present the United States as a promised land but as an \"orphanage:\" \"It's an orphanage and there is a fagin\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Anu Garg, The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Profiling the legendary biblioklept Stephen Blumberg (\"the greatest book thief in U.S. history\"), the New Yorker magazine writes, “He was a fagin. Many of his friendships were with adolescent boys. He gave them money to help him unload his truck and sometimes to steal things.\"",
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        "Alternative form of Fagin"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1911, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work: A History of Our Time - Volume 22, page 14847:",
          "text": "From February until the following October, Latsky was daily in the streets with the \"fagins,\" who made much of him; for at ten years of age he was admitted to be one of the very cleverest of all the young thieves on the East Side.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 8, Issues 1-6, page 118:",
          "text": "You can always find a fagin or a madam for a kid. I don't know how prices are now — when I was thirteen, I brought fifty dollars.\" Norvell, his hair standing on end, said, \"You?\" \"I guess I was lucky — they sold me to a fagin, not into a house.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Hanna Wallinger, Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change, →ISBN, page 67:",
          "text": "Native Speaker does not present the United States as a promised land but as an \"orphanage:\" \"It's an orphanage and there is a fagin\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Anu Garg, The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Profiling the legendary biblioklept Stephen Blumberg (\"the greatest book thief in U.S. history\"), the New Yorker magazine writes, “He was a fagin. Many of his friendships were with adolescent boys. He gave them money to help him unload his truck and sometimes to steal things.\"",
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