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G noun- one thousand dollars; one thousand pounds; one thousand US, 1928
From GRAND. - She needs doctors and nurses and a place to live and something to eat for maybe years. Take six or seven gees for that. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 62, 1948
- I’ll even take care of the babe’s ten g’s out of my end. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 80, 1954
- Everything is going to be O.K. then, maybe next year sometime, when I retire from the ring with several Gs in my kick. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 261, 1955
- Gonzalo’s regular tip for headwaiters and bandleaders was a “G.” — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 79, 1960
- Suppose you had killed him for $75,000 – would that have been worth it? Ain’t no bartender got 75 gees, I answered. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 219, 1967
- I got to kick this habit you conned me into. I won’t give you any headaches. You got to loan me that “G.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 101, 1969
- And where’d the Church get the 50 G in the first place? — The Bad Lieutenant, 1992
- [T]he dangling of a £35g carrot would speed the process[.] — Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People, 2002
- a gram UK
Used mainly in a drug context. - Course the pukin’s fuck all to do with the two gees o’ whizz [speed] he does for breakfast. An’ an E on top. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 25, 1997
- [W]hen they said a line they meant half a g for starters. — James Hawes, White Powder, Green Light, p. 37, 2002
- one grain (of a narcotic) US
- — Mr., p. 9, April 1966: “The hippie’s lexicon”
- a generic manufactured cigarette US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, 1992
- a gang member US, 1990
- This is upper level warfare; a G won’t even take a youngster with him when he sets out to grab another G. — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 231, 1991
- [T]he small army of junior G’s. — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 8, 1994
- They know I’m the type that never had a crime partner. I was always “What do you say to the other OG’s about getting with the younger Gs to make things better?” — Yusuf Jah, Uprising, p. 56, 1995
- a close friend US, 1989
- — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 137, 2000
- a girlfriend US, 1991
- — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 137, 2000
- a G-string US
- For a long time, all you can get is belly dancers willing to strip down to their G’s. — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, p. 191, 1992
- a cheating device US
An abbreviation of GAFF- The “G,” or gaff, was that some nails were altered so that they bent immediately under the force of the hammer. — Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash, p. 129, 2005
▶ pull a G to engage in serial sex with many men US- [T]hey would get her drunk, and then Rock and B.K. and all their boys would have sex with her. That’s called a gang bang, or pulling a G. — John Allen, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, p. 62, 1977
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