papes n.
1. (US) newspapers.
![]() | (con. 1918–19) Beginning of Wisdom 290: All the papes said he kicked out with the heart-disease. |
2. (orig. US black) money [paper n. (1)].
![]() | 🎵 I’m gettin papes, but stunts gets the vapes. | ‘Feels So Good’|
![]() | 🎵 on It Was Written [album] You’d love to hear the story how the thugs live in worry / Duck down in car seats, heat’s mandatory / Runnin from Jake, gettin chased, hunger for papes. | ‘If I Ruled the World’|
![]() | Portable Promised Land (ms.) 154: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Cheese. Bank. Paper. Papes. Scrilla. |