small-time
He plays a small-timer who owes some impatient gangsters money he doesn't have.
The big company only took 35% of the price of goods provided by the small-timers.
They are small-timers and unscrupulous opportunists.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Miscellaneous criminals
arsonist
artifice burglar
bigamist
bioterrorist
black hat
desperado
distraction burglar
distraction thief
drug dealer
embezzler
knock-knock burglar
launderer
looter
lowlife
man of straw
safecracker
scofflaw
shicer
shoplifter
smuggler
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