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long
adjective- (used of money) a lot of US
- A syndicated outfit with lots of the long green. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 70, 1947
- I began to realize that to make long bread one needed to be a singer and look pretty for the girls. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 40, 1967
- He’d read an item about some black female theatrical star getting thousands a week for her act and bemoan the fact that a brilliant and gorgeous dude like himself was pimping his heart out on a gang of stinking street whores instead of taking off long bread from a glamorous black performer. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 80, 1971
- Where’d I see this blond bitch before, maybe thinking he was a pay lawyer, because he was well groomed and looked like long money. — Robert Price, Clockers, p. 93, 1992
- (of a drug addiction) serious US
- “Sharlee’s habit was oooh-long. And got longer.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 155, 1971
▶ as long as your arm
very long UK, 1846- I could cite a list of countries as long as my arm in which economic systems based on that principle have ended in economic disaster. — Quentin Davies, Hansard (The United Kingdom Parliament), 8 June 1990
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