The locals whispered about the shag-bandits who stole every old rug in the market.

The old sailors whispered that shag bandits prowled the docks at night, stealing anything left unattended.

He was labeled a shag bandit by his friends after they discovered he had been seeing several women behind his partner's back.

After the gossip column exposed his affairs, he was mockingly dubbed a shag-bandit by readers.