Meaning of bankrobber | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of bank robber.

form-of, rare

Examples

“The program⟳ contains lexical information about the domain of crimes, committed by actors such as bankrobbers, hi-jackers, burglars, and kidnappers. The parser parses assertions that correspond, for example, to the following description: The bankrobber with the knife rang up the bank. It first builds a model⟳ of the actor, by accessing its lexical semantics for the noun, bankrobber.”

“In both questionnaires - in the 1970s and the 1980s - positive and negative adjectives had to be underlined when they were thought to be applicable to a bankrobber and a drunken driver. No positive attributes in either of the two surveys were underlined. Also, no change⟳ in the attribution of adjectives to the two types of offender can be perceived. Bankrobbers are typified by words like⟳ dangerous, mean⟳, greedy, and dishonest pertaining to the total image of the person.”

“The Sounds reviewer pointed out that Joe’s Daddy was not a bankrobber but a Foreign Office diplomat. Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan had never been called to account for singing about bankrobbers, and in May 1979 the Clash themselves had released a song about ‘robbing people with a six gun’ without anyone turning a hair. Why was ‘Bankrobber’ being interpreted so literally, and deemed so unacceptable?”

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