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green
noun- money US, 1898
From the green colour of paper currency in the US. - With a pocketful of green I was digging the scene the other bright[.] — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 36, 1959
- How ‘bout it, pal – got a taste for the easy green? — Terry Southern, The Magic Christian, p. 15, 1959
- Yeah, my old man had a lot of green. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 250, 1960
- He wasn’t all that big and she had plenty of baby oil going in the way of lubricant and if he wanted to lay out all that green for a real piece of ass, he was the customer and the customer was always right. — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 49, 1972
- These were fifteen-thousand-a-year guys–not paying with plastic, either: hard-earned green. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 13, 1979
- JOSH: It’s about the green. MOE: It’s about da money. — Mo’ Better Blues, 1990
- in American casinos, a $25 chip US
- — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 28, 1985
- marijuana, especially with a low resin count US
- Threw green down the toilet, getting ready to visit you. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 512, 1st, 6 September 1955
- [H]e got hold of some bad green, as it’s called in the trade – green, uncured marijuana, quite by mistake, and smoked too much of it. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 184, 1957
- Royo had left Los Angeles with a kilo of long Mexican green, lately smuggled across the border at Tijuana. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 86, 1961
- Billy got some light green, Whoreson, while Eddie’s smoke is good, it’s got a lot of sticks and stuff in it. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 130, 1972
- They gave Donna a bulging bag of green and we left. — Michelle Tea, Valencia, p. 92, 2000
- phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust US
From the practice of sprinkling the drug on parsley or mint. - — Ronald linder, PCP, p. 9, 1981
- the recreational drug ketamine US
From the drug’s natural green colour. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 233, 1986
- mucus UK
- [He] opens up a little sidewindow dredgin’ up green from his lungs. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 33, 1997
- the felt surface of a pool table US
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 15, 1990
- a stage, especially in the phrase “see you on the green” UK, 1931
All that remains in current use of theatrical rhyming slang “green gage”. - an unbroken wave US
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 169, 1964
- a green capsule containing drugs, especially a central nervous system stimulant US, 1966
Also variant “greenie”. - Or he’ll say, "How fabulous are greenies?” (The answer is very. Greenies are pep pills – dextroamphetamine sulpahte – and a lot of baseball players couldn’t function without them.) — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 80, 1970
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 279, 2003
- a supporter of environmental politics UK
- — New Society, 22 July 1982
▶ in the green
flying with all instruments recording safe conditions US- — American Speech, p. 119, May 1963: “Air refueling words”
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