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sawbuck
noun- a ten-dollar note US, 1850
- Lemme take a sawbuck, man. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 43, 1945
- Through Western Union the Freemans had lucked up on a sawbuck from home, so we were in the chips again. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 135, 1946
- The two suits I had bought off the rack had had to be altered slightly, but I had given the clerk a sawbuck and he had said they would be delivered this afternoon[.] — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, p. 249, 1948
- He was a kid trying to get a fin or a sawbuck a day to keep his habit up. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 369, 1958
- “Then Bernie should get ’something extra’ every time he solos on Grand Piano Jump.” “Say an extra sawbuck,” Red went on. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 91, 1961
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 81, 1980
- a ten-year prison sentence US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 185, 1950
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 816, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 47, 1976
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