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grouch bag
noun
literally, a small bag hidden on the person with emergency funds in it; figuratively, a wallet or a person’s supply of money US, 1908- He could tell carnie hands and circus roustabouts because they took their money out of grouch-bags, pouches drawn by string, like tobacco pouches. — Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, p. 18, 1956
- “How’s the grouch bag holding?” he asked. “All right. I’ve got a few bucks.” — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 8, 1966
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 42, 1980
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