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paper
noun- money US
- [W]hen the girl turned her head–bang–she had the paper [money] out of the drawer. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 71, 1972
- The bitch had to make fair paper, no matter how small a part she had on the program. — Donald Goines, Never Die Alone, p. 113, 1974
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 151, 1982
- You know, this “paper” [money] thing ain’t gonna last forever. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 89, 1989
- Always available Nicky you know that. Prefer it we make some paper out of it you understand. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 24, 1999
- [W]hen the establishment Mafioso realise how much gilt, paper, cashish, wonga, wedge, corn, cutter, loot, spondos, dollar, readies, shillings, folding, dough, money is on offer[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 94, 2000
- He had so many petty thieves, crack-heads and scumbags on his books, changing plastic into paper was a doddle for him. — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 53, 2002
- These bitches pop it for some paper. Pop that ass for some cash flow. — Hustle and Flow, 2004
- a cigarette paper UK, 1950
- Bony stirred uneasily, and, to conceal it, he began with tobacco and papers. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 61, 1959
- Realizing he’d left his tobacco and papers under the truck, Hodge went outside. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 28, 1963
- — Mary Lay and Nancy Orban, The Hip Glossary of Hippie Language, June 1967
- Canna Pal ana packeta Drum and papers, mate. — Barry Dickins, What the Dickins, p. 54, 1985
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 85, 1996
- personal identification papers US
- No running. No face jobs or new paper. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 278, 1982
- promotional literature produced as part of a telephone sales swindle US
- — Kathleen Odean, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops, p. 132, 1988
- a free ticket or pass to a performance UK, 1785
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 68, 1980
- If we’d been playing to crowded houses the producer would swear on his children’s bones that the house was almost all paper. — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 152, 1951
- a cheque, securities US
- She is more upgraded, she knows how to pass paper [forged checks, credit cards], she knows the various houses to go to. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 95, 1972
- All the joints on 7th and 8th Avenues and up on Sugar Hill, Tad visited and passed out $1,600 worth of bad paper until he got so sick he had to go the hospital. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 50, 1975
- He was a con artist dealing in paper–a stocks-and-bonds type guy. — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 54, 1987
- a speeding ticket US
- — Radio Shack, CBer’s Handy Atlas/Dictionary, p. 36, 1976
- a deck of cards that have been marked for cheating US
- — Robert C. Prus and C.R.D. Sharper, Road Hustler, p. 171, 1977: “Glossary of terms”
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 286, 1979
- heroin sold in a paper packet; a folded paper containing any powdered drug US
- Like where to pick up a strip of benny or a paper of snow, or anything you want from the outside, if the price is right. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 194, 1951
- Whenever a law needs money for a quick beer, he goes over by Lupita and waits for someone to walk out on the chance he may be holding a paper. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 101, 1953
- [A] little Negro girl roaming the shuffle restless street of winos, hoodlums, sams, cops, paper peddlers[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 56, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 84, 1996
- probation in lieu of a jail sentence; parole from prison US
- With his record, Chester didn’t believe he’d get out on paper, but he didn’t believe he’d get the same time that Willie got[.] — Donald Goines, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, p. 127, 1973
- Marie had a habit of fucking with me late at night out in the streets because she knew I was on paper and couldn’t stand to be picked up for cracking her head. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 83, 1973
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 101, 1992
- an underworld contract to have someone killed US
- Rick Masters has paper out on me. There’s a price on my head so I asked to be put in protective custody. — Gerald Petievich, To Live and Die in L.A., p. 151, 1983
- The point is, Parisi has paper on me and I’m dead, hon. — Gerald Petievich, Shakedown, p. 201, 1988
▶ off paper
having completed criminal probation US- In a community where a large percentage of young men like Starks have had run-ins with the law, one of his tasks is to inform other exfelons that their voting rights can be restored once they’re “off paper.” — Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 14 October 2008
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