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bread
noun- money US, 1935
The term was used at least as early as the 1930s, but it did not gain wide acceptance until the 1960s. - Without bread a stud can’t even rule an anthill. — William “Lord” Buckley, Marc Anthony’s Funeral Oration, 1955
- We spent two hours in Testament waiting for Hyman Solomon to show up; he was hustling for his bread somewhere in town, but we couldn’t see him. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 137, 1957
- I’m gettin’ some bread tomorrow, honest! — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 172, 1960
- “There’s a lot of bread to be made gigging right around here in Roxbury,” Shorty explained to me. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 45, 1964
- I knew the cab driver had beat me for my bread but there was no use crying, it was gone. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 24, 1967
- Whenever time you is down and out–busted–haven’t got any bread–you call yourself an Israelite. — Desmond Dekker, 1969
- Black Panther Platform and Program No. 10: We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. — The Black Panther, p. 18, 25 January 1969
- No artists ever did it for the bread. If money motivates you, you’re not an artist. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 121, 1970
- “Bread? Osca, you want bread?” Maria, the Jewish switchhitter screamed in Billie Holiday tones. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 44, 1972
- They are moochers [beggars]. “Hey, man, got any bread?” — Rhiannon Paine, Too Late for the Festival, p. 207, 1999
- ship’s biscuits TRISTAN DA CUNHA, 1910
- — Bernadette Hince, The Antarctic Dictionary, p. 68, 2000
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