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scratch
noun- money US, 1914
- “How can we make some money?” “I could use some scratch too,” he says and throws the dice. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 26, 1955
- “I’ve known of times when Miller could have made a real sackful of scratch by doing just what he’s done for us, but he never bit before.” — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 72, 1968
- When he got inside the door, he would shout, “All right you poor ass bastards, it’s party time and Joe Evans is in port with enough scratch to burn up a wet elephant.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 33, 1969
- Say you cop a choice chick and you’re really doing great / The scratch is right and the set up looks straight. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 165, 1976
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 289, 1979
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 102, 1996
- unemployment benefit IRELAND
- I was chatting to someone the other day about the dole, otherwise known in more colloquial language as the scratch. — Kildare Nationalist, 25 February 2000
- a masturbatory manipulation of the clitoris UK
- Could have been watching Frankie Vaughan [pornography] on the telly and giving herself a scratch. — Ian Dury, This is What We Find, 1979
- a sound or rhythmic effect created by the manipulation of a vinyl recording US
- He had a way of rhythmically taking a scratch and making that shit sound musical. — Lois Stavsky et al. (quoting DJ Fuze, July 1994), A2Z, p. 89, 1995
- a drug addict US
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- rubber marks left on a surface when a car speeds away US, 1966
- — Current Slang, p. 5, Fall 1966
- an attestation by a superior that a police officer was on his beat at a given time US
- waiting at street corners for a sergeant to come by and make the scratch. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 291, 1973
- AIDS US
- The kitty, the monster, the scratch. The three young men from Brooklyn know the street slang for AIDS, and how to speak the same language. — Newsday, p. A5, 6 June 2006
- the vagina; a woman as a sex object; sex with a woman US
- “The trim, the grind, the scratch—in plain, everyday English—the pussy!” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 195, 1962
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