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cover
noun- an admission fee paid to enter a bar or club US
A shortened “cover charge.” - Bellamy was so snockered he didn’t even blink at the ten-dollar cover. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 2, 1986
- a single large-denomination note wrapped around small-denomination notes, giving the impression of a great deal of money US
- He loved to flash his “Kansas City roll,” probably fifty one-dollar bills folded with a twenty on the inside and a one-hundred dollar bill on the outside. We always wondered what Dollarbill would do if someone ever stole his hundred-dollar “cover.” — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 89, 1964
- a recording that has been popularised by someone else US, 1970
A shortened form of the more formal “cover version”. - Listen, it isn’t bad enough, we have to do covers, we’re doing the Spice Girls, and those chicks can’t even fucking sing. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 35, 1999
- the disguise and staged personality assumed by an expert card counter playing blackjack in a casino in the hope of avoiding detection and ejection US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 25, 1991
- a condom US
- Cover, a condom — Keith Straight, Declaration of Det. Keith Haight, US v. Palfrey, 18 March 2008
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