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yard
noun- one hundred dollars US, 1926
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 20, 1945
- One long yard, man; just flip one hundred of them singles and we’ll take it from the top. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 157, 1961
- They entered and after routine questioning they asked how much money I had. I showed them six “yards”[.] — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 27, 1967
- Give me a yard and a half and take the bitch back. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 105, 1969
- “How much?” “A yard. Hundred bucks and she’s happy.” — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 48, 1972
- I lent him a yard / and copped him a rod. — Lightnin’ Rod, Hustlers Convention, p. 14, 1973
- I started going to the Copa regular; if I caught the show always a yard for the maitre d’–“Mr. Brigante, right this way.” — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 30, 1975
- one thousand dollars US, 1932
- You can make a couple of yards a week and be cool about it. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 322, 1967
- a prison sentence of 100 years US
- “Party” went back to the joint for a “yard” after he got out of City Hospital. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 41, 1969
- — William K. Bentley, Prison Slang, p. 24, 1992
- a prison sentence of one year US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 242, 1950
- your country, especially Jamaica UK
- Use the money to go on holiday, visit Yard or sump’n, man. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 122, 1994
- your home, your house; in prison, your cell JAMAICA, 1950 West Indian and UK black.
- Lloyd took a pit stop at the local off-licence for a six-pack of Tennants before heading to his yard. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 13, 1994
- Use the money to go on holiday, visit Yard or sump’n, man. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 122, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 124, 1996
- “It’s my birthday Tuesday,” she said helpfully. “Come to my yard and none of your deep lateness.” — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 20, 2000
- a member of the Montagnard tribe, the aborigine hill tribes of Vietnam’s Central Highlands US, 1991
- The report had come from a Montagnard, or “Yard” as the soldiers call them. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 26, 1967
- “I wouldn’t give no Milky Ways to no Yards.” — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 65, 1972
- Here a “Yard” aidman attends to the team leader’s wound. [Caption] — Hans Halberstadt, Green Berets, 1988
- From old I Corps / To the Delta / To the highlands / Filled with “yards.” — Thomas Bowen, The Longest Year, p. 14, 1990: Buddha Bless Saigon
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 244, 1991
▶ the Yard
Scotland Yard, subsequently New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan police UK, 1888 Originally, since 1888, used of the location of London’s Metropolitan Police; the familiar name stayed when the headquarters moved to new premises in 1967.- They were on their way to the Yard to see if he could pick the grafter [confidence trickster] who’d lawed him out of the rogue’s gallery. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 129, 1956
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