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fin
noun- a five-pound or five-dollar note UK, 1868
- That’s what they give him a fin for, to buy with’n Lukey. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 244, 1952
- I drank all day in a wild poolhall-bar-restaurant-saloon two-part joint, also got burned for a fin (Mexican, 5 pesos, 60 cents) by a connection. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 359, 27 May 1952
- Maybe he had a morning’s work in the produce market, unloading fruit crates, or maybe he touched one of his old pals for a fin. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 10, 1955
- He was a kid trying to get a fin or a sawbuck a day to keep his habit up. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 369, 1958
- So he pressed a fin into her palm. — William “Lord” Buckley, The Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade, 1960
- “How ’bout it, my mannnnn?” he called out to Elijah above the clatter of the balls being racked, “shoot one for a fin?” — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 85, 1977
- a five-year prison sentence UK, 1925
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 798, 1962: “penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- I said, “It isn’t a little trouble. Under the ‘Max’ I could get a ‘fin.’ ” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 46, 1969
- a US Navy diver who is not qualified for SCUBA diving US
Vietnam war usage. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 80, 1991
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