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ten-spot
noun- a ten-dollar note US
- A ten-spot, too damned much – anything was too damned much – but he had an idea that it wouldn’t be much longer now[.] — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 119, 1954
- Reggie got out of the car and walked up the highway and gave the cop a ten-spot, and all the way to Detroit Reggie and One-Eye argued, I mean vehemently, about whether we could have gotten away with only a fiver. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 156, 1961
- She laid the ten spot on me and I copped. — Odie Hawkins, Black Casanova, p. 165, 1984
- “Sam won’t touch nothing less than a ten-spot,” Sam’s Man kidded. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 25, 1988
- a ten-pound note UK, 1984
Adopted directly from the previous sense. - Sub us a ten-spot then, mun. — Niall Griffiths, Grits, p. 30, 2000
- a ten-year prison sentence US
- Now New York give my girl a ten-spot and the matron led her by her hand / just thinkin’ of ten long years in prison just for breakin’ the laws of man. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 141, 1965
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