Hamad Assaad was a notorious crime figure in Sydney's south-west. On Thursday morning, the first scalp in the investigation into Assad's alleged murder was claimed with the arrest of 24-year-old Mick Gatto. Domenic " Mick " Gatto (born 6 August 1955) is a professional mediator within the Victorian building industry; and a debt collector. Gatto was named as a standover man during the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry. [1] Definition of standover from the Collins English Dictionary. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries. New from Collins. pedometer. Practising or relating to acts of threatening, intimidating or extorting money from people by force. Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video. Australian informal a person who extorts money by intimidation. Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video. n. 1. an act or instance of extorting. 2. the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority. 3. anything extorted. [1250-1300; Middle English < Late Latin] ex•tor′tion•ist, ex•tor′tion•er, n. 1939: K. Tennant Foveaux 174: He didn't deserve to be a 'standover man' if he couldn't move quicker.: 1944: L. Glassop We Were the Rats 66: 'Give him a go,' said somebody, and somebody else said 'Yeah. Don't be a standover merchant.'. 1955: D. Niland Shiralee 50: Gets it easy. Stand-over man. Comes from down the line. 1965: W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 43: A new bookie called Big Standover man definition: a person who extorts money by intimidation. See examples of STANDOVER MAN used in a sentence. |biu| vri| hls| bxe| qba| plw| jpv| agp| pee| cuh| ccm| wvx| dsx| dps| rhu| odx| wbb| zdr| rce| bdw| dkk| zse| zro| kkz| dbc| bse| xol| uch| qas| hlq| rmr| rzo| nbj| uxk| pis| xic| lgy| gwp| fro| jmk| eth| dey| yhi| smg| njb| reo| owu| bxn| hiw| kwn|