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dough
noun- money US, 1851
- With the dough I made for the Conn Music Company and bought an alto sax for cash. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 54, 1946
- Coz all the good times is over / And the squares don’t have no dough. — Jimmy Witherspoon, Skid Row Blues, 1947
- Live off the fatta the land with dough their father left them. — Mickey Spillane, vI, The Jury, p. 12, 1947
- “Well, if I’d had the dough to play on Red Pepper this afternoon, I’d be swimming in good nature,” Dopey said. “Me too. I was flat.” — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 28, 1947
- “You sonofabitch!” he yelled. “Give me my dough!” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 47, 1953
- It’s my experience that once a mug’s been taken by the corner game [a con trick] he’s kissed his dough goodbye. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 91, 1956
- They maybe we can import some talent to make the hit. But we’d need some dough. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 54, 1959
- Then he only became the line, until him and The Man couldn’t get together about dough. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 185, 1960
- Too bad in a way cause most of us used to rip off the Lion Supermarket there when we had to eat and had no dough. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 21, 1969
- When you figure it up, we don’t have to lay out for half of it before we got more dough back than we can use. — Richard Farina, Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone, p. 211, 1969
- I just spent 60 days in the jailhouse / For the crime of having no dough. — The Band, The Shape I’m In, 1970
- Young man, there’s a place you can go / I said, young man, when you’re short on your dough. — Village People, Y.M.C.A., 1978
- The guy has his wife cash the check and he takes off for Las Vegas with the dough. — Get Shorty, 1995
- an American infantryman US
Korean war usage; shortened from the earlier DOUGHBOY- — The Baltimore Sun, 24 June 1951
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