Fagin

[ fey-gin ]

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noun

(in Dickens' Oliver Twist ) a villainous old man who trains and uses young boys as thieves.
Also �ڲ�g��. a person who teaches crime to others.

Fagin

A villain in the novel Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens . The unscrupulous, miserly Fagin teaches Oliver Twist and other orphaned boys to pick pockets and steal for him.

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Flanagan at Largo — who owns Largo — he’s the reason I love L.A. and he sort of took me in, I think of him like Fagin in “Oliver.”

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Among other achievements, Dr. Fagin was widely credited with overturning the common practice of strictly limiting parental visits to hospitalized children.

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“The assassination certainly defined a generation,” Fagin said.

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Mr Rawlins had performed as Fagin to 14-year-old Williams' Artful Dodger in a sold-out North Staffs Operatic Society performance of Oliver! in 1988 - just two years before Take That was formed.

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Also, of course, in its presentation of Fagin, indulgent of antisemitism.

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