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HOFFA

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• HOFFA (noun)
The noun 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)

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

• HOFFA (noun)

Sense 1

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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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