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shekels
noun
money US, 1883
From the ancient Babylonian unit of weight and coin.- Generally a runner made plenty for himself, taking a chance that the dough he clipped wasn’t on the number that pulled in the shekels. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 46, 1947
- This is very bad on love-life, and the few still around with loose shekels don’t look too longingly at Broadway. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 141, 1948
- And I’d still sacrifice everything. All Freddy’s shekels. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 352, 1963
- Jack, shekels, mazuma, simoleons, Mr. Green, filthy lucre, even spondulicks—this is other Why of prostitution. — Gail Sheehy, Hustling, p. 11, 1973
- The first step was to place the all-important hat by the fountain to catch the shekels. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 78, 1975
- One girl was the daughter of a wealthy family from Brooklyn. Lo and behold, the shekels came out. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 169, 1990
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