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JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
Hoffa; James Riddle Hoffa; Jimmy Hoffa
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Instance hypernyms:
labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)