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pound
noun- a five-dollar note US, 1935
- So I got Manny, I gave him a pound, and I said, listen, Manny, you want to get a job? — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 240, 1964
- “Man this is my band and I’ma tired of you just allowing me five dollars a night, give me a twenty” I said, “Look man, here’s a pound and that’s it.” — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 78, 1967
- “So will you loan Jackie a pound?” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 73, 1971
- After finding the fat BR, I removed a few pound notes from the center of it and placed it back in the same way it was when I found it. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 12, 1973
- My shirts were from Brooks’; my socks cost a pound / I wore solid gold cufflinks–I knew I was down. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 36, 1976
- Throw Walter a pound for forgetting the dupes. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 15, 1979
- a five-year jail sentence US
- But after you do almost a pound here, like me, you get so you can stand it. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Farm, p. 128, 1967
- It’s been a good pound since that went down and that’s all you do for seven and a half, ain’t it? — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 130, 1973
- Even did time for a homicide. Did a pound. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 88, 1977
- I did a pound at Coxsackie. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 28, 1979
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 89, 1996
- an ‘s’ unit (five decibels) in measuring the level of a citizens’ band radio signal US
- — Lanie Dills, The Official CB Slanguage Language Dictionary, p. 63, 1976
- an amount of heroin worth five dollars US
- — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 118, 1982
- a prison cell used for solitary confinement AUSTRALIA, 1950
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 73, 1977
- Got three days in the pound. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 167, 1987
- His alleged assailant was put in the ‘pound’, a jail within the jail. — Dominion, p. 3, 30 June 1993
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 101, 1999
- a jail or prison US
- Federal pound. Forty-four months. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 66, 1977
- in poker, a heavy bet US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 70, 1988
▶ have a pound on yourselfto be conceited; to think very well of yourself UK From betting terminology. - She’s got a pound on herself all right. Obviously thought he, Mellors, wasn’t good enough for her. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 25, 1959
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