Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa
noun
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)
• Syn: ↑Hoffa, ↑James Riddle Hoffa
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑labor leader

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Jimmy Hoffa [Jimmy Hoffa]
(1913–?1975) a US trade union leader. He was President of the International Brotherhood of ↑Teamsters and greatly increased their power. He was found guilty of trying to bribe a member of a jury and was sent to prison from 1967 to 1971. He disappeared in 1975 and his body has never been found, though people assume he was murdered.

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