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cabbage noun- money US, 1903
- Claims he’s a human juke box and can lead the rats away if he jives the right tune which he’ll do if the top squatters will put up the cabbage. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- [H]e spent the winters in Miami and dropped a wad of cabbage at the tables there. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 114, 1952
- [A] little bit of green cabbage sprinkled delicately from his expens-ively tailored pocket would do the trick[.] — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 36, 1958
- On seeing me, he had said, Look, kid, ya gotta make the cabbage before you can carry the torch. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 433, 1961
- If we don’t draw fans, we’re not going to be making the old cabbage. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 267, 1970
- Made a little cabbage on the Tommy Bell fight too. — Raging Bull, 1980
- The main one [complaint] was about the squadron sergeant major and something to do with “cabbage”. It took me a while to find out that this meant money. — Andy McNab (writing of the late 1970s/early 1980s), Immediate Action, p. 193, 1995
- the vagina US
Perhaps from the image of leaves peeling back. - — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 39, 1967
- — Maledicta, p. 131, Summer/Winter 1982: “Dyke diction: the language of lesbians”
- low-grade marijuana NEW ZEALAND, 2002
From the quality of the leaves. - a coronary artery bypass graft US
A loose pronunciation of the acronym CABG. - — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 136, 1994
- stolen fashion goods UK
- The other problem is cabbage. Cabbage is the stuff that falls off the back of a lorry, or indeed out of the factory gate, and ends up on a market stall next to the cabbage–hence its name. — Imogen Edwards-Jones, Fashion Babylon, p. 81, 2006
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