Green’s Dictionary of Slang

in pl., dollars.

1973		E. Bunker No Beast So Fierce 44: He blew everything gambling [...] Half a million scoots in five years.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 16: [I] left the dispatcher with an envelope containing fifty scoots.
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 135: A heroic version of the arrests for fifty scoots.
1996		(con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 151: I just wanted to catch up with those guys, they left a few scoots lyin’ around on the ground.
2001		‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 6: The problem with selling three-dollar plush for forty scoots is that the build-up only pays off if you’ve got a steady string of suckers.
2004		D. Clark Apocalyptic Crawfish! 16: And they’re payin’ me seventy-five scoots a week. It’s a cinch. Seventy-five rubles, and the job is potatoes and gravy.
2009		(con. 1960s) J. Ellroy Blood’s a Rover 23: Life magazine offers a millions scoots for Howard Hughes pix.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 120: Here’s ten scoots, don’t bug me.