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bank
noun- money; wealth US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Spring 1991
- Hoodsters gathered in the evening to swap stories, get high, make a little bank on drug sales, and plot crimes. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 15, 1993
- Doing this, we make mad bank. — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- Because if the buzz is any indication, the movie’s gonna make some huge bank. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 18, 2001
- a sum of money ready for immediate use, especially for gambling AUSTRALIA, 1919
- Joe Frisco shared a room with his mate, Needles. They had got a “Bank” together to back a horse at Santa Anita races. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 114, 1975
- Rather than waste any of his precious “bank” on admission, he hid in the boot of a mate’s car and got into the course that way. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 38, 1982
- a person who finances a gambling enterprise US
- — R. Frederick West, God’s Gambler, p. 222, 1964
- a prison cell for solitary confinement US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 790, 1962
- a toilet US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 7, 1945
▶ on the bank
subsisting on bank loans AUSTRALIA- Chris Cotter came over to Jingiddy on train days and saw the farmers who were “on the bank”[.] — F. B. Vickers, First Place to the Stranger, 1955
▶ take it to the bank; put it in the bank
to be very sure of a fact US, 1977- “One thing you can take to the bank is a white Christmas,” a National Weather Service spokesman said of western Illinois and eastern Iowa. — Washington Post, p. A2, 22 December 1983
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 89, 1994
- “I will never forget where I come from, and you can take that to the bank.” (Quoting Senator John Edwards). — Chicago Tribune, p. C1, 20 February 2004
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