yard

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yard

n. a one-hundred-dollar bill. (Underworld.) The guy wanted a yard just to fix a little dent in the fender.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • all wool and a yard wide
  • boneyard
  • by the yard
  • do the hard yards
  • end up in the knacker's yard
  • get up the yard
  • give (someone) an inch and (someone) (will) take a yard
  • Give an inch and he'll take a mile
  • go the whole nine yards
  • hard yards
  • in (one's) (own) back yard
  • junkyard dog
  • move the yardsticks
  • not in my back yard
  • put it in their back yard
  • Put it in their back yard!
  • ready for the knacker's yard
  • the knacker's yard
  • the whole nine yards
  • whole nine yards
  • whole nine yards, the
  • yard
  • yard dog
  • yard sale
  • yardbird
  • yard-sale
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Recycling the urban forest
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PERTH GOOD TO SOFT (Soft in places)
In his second start, Herbert was 22-for-40 for 258 yards and six touchdowns.
Justin Herbert pushes pace in second start for Oregon Ducks