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bill
noun- a dollar US, 1915
- He’d raised one hundred sixty-five bills to buy an anti-war ad in the school paper, and then the principal, who is widely held to be a bad person, refused to let the ad run. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 80, 1968
- Like I was saying about the hundred bills: the suit and shoes would run about eight bill, right? — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 160, 1968
- They must have won eighty dollars between them last night at poker (and spent considerable time letting us be reminded of the fact on the way over here), and they walk after being shot down for a measly five bills. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 65, 1987
- one hundred dollars US, 1929
- Scat Man Crothers, as zany as they come, plucks his gitbox and hums like a hummingbird. He too just recorded in Hollywood for Capitol. Crothers is grabbing five bills a week as a nitery comic. — Capitol News, p. 15, March 1949
- Five bills to find out where she lived and not who she was. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, pp. 66–67, 1950
- Do you realize I lost nearly three bills when my connect got busted? — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 88, 1960
- I’ll sound Jimmy on a stronger advance, say a bill and a half, but I can’t guarantee anything. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 189, 1961
- So I gave him a half a bill, fifty dollars. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 163, 1965
- You’re getting almost six bills a month, Mike. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 57, 1970
- “I only got two bills because I made it with a donkey.” — Elliott Parker, What You Always Wanted to Know About Sodomy and Perversion, p. 256, 1972
- He’s pulling down six bills a week. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- You pull down four bills a week which is damn good. — 48 Hours, 1982
- Two bills a week, room and board. All you can eat–got a great cook. But, no fucking the maids, they’re nice girls. — Elmore Leonard, Stick, pp. 83–84, 1983
- Hey, Ernie, wanna buy this baby for two bills? — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 15, 1986
- If this stuff is worth twenty-five bills then I probably won’t have to sell all of it. — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 94, 2000
- the nose US, 1952
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 37, 1960
▷ see:BILLWYMAN,BILLYWHIZZ
▶ do a bill
to spend one hundred dollars US- — Stewart L. Tubbs and Sylvia Moss, Human Communication, p. 120, 1974
▶ the bill
the police UK, 1969
Abbreviated from OLD BILLThe Bill.- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 27, 1996
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