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mill
noun- millimetre, especially as a measure of a gun’s calibre, or a width of still- and cine-camera film US, 1960
- Makes a nine mill look like a fuckin peashooter. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 60, 1994
- one thousand dollars US
- — Francis J. Rigney and L. Douglas Smith, The Real Bohemia, p. xx, 1961
- a million, especially and usually a million dollars or pounds US, 1942
Sometimes simply “mile”. - They make, what, about a quarter of a mil in a month? — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 201, 1971
- We walk away with a mill. Does that turn you on? — Gerald Petievich, One-Shot Deal, p. 159, 1981
- “Yeah,” said Brain, his mouth full of pot roast, “but two mil a movie must soften the blow.” — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 46, 1982
- “If Jimmy killed Marty, Jimmy would get Marty’s half a mill.” — Nicholas Pileggi, Wise Guy, p. 216, 1985
- [I]f you consider middle class a family that rakes in two-fifty to half a mil a year. — John Ridley, Everybody Smokes in Hell, p. 3, 1999
- He likes his ladies, his clothes and a quarter mill a year in his kick. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 6, 2000
- They won’t scoff at the extra half-mill in my back bin [pocket] and all. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 235, 2001
- in hot rodding and drag racing, an engine US, 1918
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: “Racing jargon”
- Of course you can always swap mills, buif you have a champagne appetite for speed and a beer bankroll, you can go a long way on a little money by overhauling and tuning up[.] — Edd Byrnes, Way Out with Kookie, 1959
- — Capitol Records, Hot Rod Jargon, 1963
- Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill / But she’ll walk a Thunderbird like she’s standin’ still... — Brian Wilson (Performed by The Beach Boys), Little Deuce Coupe, 1963
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