mon n.1
(US) money.
![]() | McCook Trib. (NE) 8 Oct. 2/1: He [an Italian] also claimed to be a stranger in the city [...] and had plenty ‘o’ de mon’. | |
![]() | Mott Street Poker Club 42: ‘Havee plenty mon [...] Havee too muchee mon’. | |
![]() | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (2001) 64: Put yer mon in yer pocket! Yer loaded an’ yehs on’y makes a damn fool of yerself. | |
![]() | Mirror of Life 17 Feb. 3/3: The enraged Italian grasped the ‘monk’ by the throat, shouting, ‘Giva da mon I Give da mon’. | |
![]() | Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 7: mun n. Money. | |
![]() | Nebraska State Journal 8 Dec. in DN IV:ii 120: No hold-up man who draws his gun on me will ever get my mon. | |
![]() | Sport (Adelaide) 23 Aug. 9/3: Archie H is on the run, / Catching tarts with ‘you’re the one,’ / I know he has taken them to the Pav, / Now where on earth did he get the mon? | |
![]() | Gullible’s Travels 192: I don’t have to work [...] I got the mon. | ‘The Water Cure’ in|
![]() | Sl. Dict. Stage 29: ‘Mazum,’ ‘mazuma,’ ‘cush,’ ‘denoya,’ ‘rocks,’ ‘spons,’ ‘spondulix,’ ‘long green,’ ‘yellowbacks,’ ‘dough,’ ‘mononny,’ ‘da mon’. | |
![]() | 🎵 Old Missus went to the race track and lost all-a her mon. | ‘Old Timbrook Blues’|
![]() | 🎵 Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o. | ‘Jambalaya’|
![]() | Family 181: Wilder, whose attitude was ‘Where’s the mon?’ [...] was worried lest Charlie should burn him for the session money. |