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finif
noun- a five-dollar note US, 1859
From the Yiddish finif (five). - Widely used in colloquial English, especially by sports fans, gamblers, Broadway types, nightclub habitues, and newspaper columnists, who memorialize these gaudy provinces of diversion. — Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, p. 117, 1968
- Ray saw plenty of people he knew, but nobody he could tap for a finnif or a sawbuck. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 11, 1988
- a prison sentence of five years US, 1904
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 84, 1949
- in dice games, a five on one die US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 124, May 1950
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