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dead presidents
noun
US currency notes of any dollar denomination; hence, generically, US money US, 1944
From the portraits of Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton etc., printed on the different value notes.- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 23, 1945
- Say, if you overhear some conversation about “a lot of dead Presidents,” don’t phone J. Edgar. It’s accepted American slang for money–especially bills. Broadway’s Gentleman Georgie Solotaire coined it. It’s catching on all over. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 24, 17 December 1952
- Then after everything is nice and groovy we just sit down and knock out a couple of those good old goone ones and pry Jimmy Vann loose from some of them dead presidents. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 191, 1961
- I say, “Bitch, what about those dead Presidents?” — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 87, 1972
- “If I see you again,” Slick had told her, “it better be behind a pile of dead Presidents. Take a load of Jacksons and Grants get you off my shit list, girl.” — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 181, 1977
- [L]eave my residence/Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents/I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid[.] — Eric B. and Rakim, Paid in Full, 1987
- Maurice, the Blue Note’s manager, no matter how often or eloquently he promised a bonus percentage of gross receipts over a certain figure, always kicked the same lousy fifty dead presidents across the bar at closing. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 13, 1990
- Infotech is worth too many dead presidents for the backlash to bite. — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft & Wet, p. 129, 1998
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