bank n.1
1. the vagina, esp. when seen as a means of making money; one of a number of terms pointing up the commercial potential of the vagina; the man also ‘places a deposit in it’.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The Swell Coves Alphabet’ in Nobby Songster 27: J. for Joe the Stunner, whose Banks may never burst. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 44: Bours, f. [...] 2. the female pudendum; ‘the bank’. |
2. (Aus./US black/campus) money, one’s fortune.
| His Account 6 Aug. 17/1: I told them, that I had no Bank, (no Money) Izzard bid me never Mind that, — he'd find Bank . | |
| Marvel 21 Apr. 345: ’Pon me civvy, ’e’s worth a bank! | |
| ‘A Derby Bet’ Sporting Times 28 May 1/4: If one man desires to be honest, and t’other man’s bank’s running short; / Well, a hundred odd’s not to be sneezed at. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aussie (France) 10 Jan. 2/1: ‘Double it, me lucky lad, and win a bank!’ said the spinner. | |
| Come in Spinner (1960) 24: They’re in the banks up to the neck now. | |
| Great Aust. Gamble 14: It had been built from a bank of seven pounds ten shillings with which he arrived on the course [ibid.] 106: Once he built up a bank of more than £7000. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Central Sl. 9: bank [...] At the first and fifteenth of every month the dudes got bank, got big bank. | |
| ‘High Rollers’ 🎵 Most men don’t understand it / Till they peep the huge bank that these girls have landed. | |
| Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 21: Price is giving me a pretty good bank to get this together. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 63: College students in the early 1990s called ‘money’ metonymically bank or paper, as in ‘I’ve got to get some bank/paper before I leave town’. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 109: In next to no time the lad had built his threepenny bank into £12. | |
| Westsiders 21: More words seem to be invented each week, faster than any Webster’s could keep track: ‘G’, ‘grip’, ‘bank’, ‘mail’ [...] It is the fecund vocabulary of desire. | |
| ‘Whatever You Like’ 🎵 Ya need to never ever gotta go in your wallet / Long as I got rubber band banks in my pocket. | |
| Sun. Times Mag. 19 Dec. 34/1: I could have sold to Russia or China and made bank. | |
| On the Bro’d 167: She was a supermodel [...] looking all hot and making mad bank. |
3. (Aus.) a rag-shop.
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 6: Banks, rag shops. |
4. (US black) the lavatory; esp. visit the bank, take a trip to the bank.
| ‘College Words and Phrases’ in DN II:i 22: bank, n. Water-closet. | |
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
5. (US prison) a solitary confinement cell [the prisoner is secure as ‘money in the bank’].
| Prison Community (1940) 330/1: bank, n. A solitary cell in prison. |
6. (US police/und.) a centralized location for accumulating gambling proceeds and calculating gambling results.
| Knapp Commission Report Dec. 78: [A]ll betting slips and the money bet are collected from the various runners and taken either directly to the ‘bank’ or to a ‘drop’ [...] At the bank, clerks with adding machines tally the day’s take and figure the money owed to winners. | |
| Black Mass 83: One informant [...] reported that starting that year ‘there was a large Money Bank at the garage on Lancaster Street where the ‘Big Boys’ go to deliver money collected as a result of illegal gaming operations. |
7. (N.Z. prison) the prison canteen.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 13/1: bank, the n. the canteen. |
In phrases
(US black) to make money.
| Another Day in Paradise 135: I really need to make serious bank now. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 make bank Definition: to get a lot of money, legal or illegal. Example: Shiiit, yo, Im gonna make bank slingin’ this dope. | |
| Right As Rain 190: We gonna make some large bank on this motherfucker. | |
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. 2011. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(drugs) depressants.
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 37: bank bandit pills barbiturates or other sedative pills. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 2: Bank bandit pills — Depressants. |
(US Und.) a bank robber.
| World of Graft 78: Do you think Boston is as much of a bank-man’s hang-out as it used to be? |
(US) a banknote.
| Commercial Advertiser (N.Y.) 13 Dec. n.p.: The Senator was shining around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take [DA]. |
In phrases
a fig. ‘bank’ on which ‘rubber’ cheques are drawn.
 | ‘Postal payments now an option’ posting 20 May at WriteWords.org 🌐 As the first user of it I can confirm it works like a charm. / David hasn’t spotted yet my cheque is drawn on the Bank of Dunlop though (he he). |
(US prison) to place an inmate in the punishment cells.
| Maledicta V:1+2 (Summer + Winter) 266: More unfamiliar are the expressions to bank off or to lay down to describe a prisoner being placed in a punishment cell. |
to take for granted, to assume as a certainty.
| Baled Hay 127: The man who ranks as a dignified snoozer, and banks on winning wealth and a deathless name. | |
| Tramping with Tramps 134: They will take things that do not belong to them if they are sure of not being caught, but this safety is so vain a hope that it is seldom ‘banked on’. | |
| Spirit of the Ghetto 77: They [i.e. educated ghetto women] have in personal character many virtues called masculine, are simple and straightforward and intensely serious, and do not ‘bank’ in any way on the fact that they are women! | |
| Smoke Bellew Pt 8 🌐 Copper! Raw, red copper! An’ they think it‘s gold! [...] The poor devils banked everything on it. | |
| Inimitable Jeeves 127: You can always bank on Bertie. | |
| Put on the Spot 182: I’m going to treat you right, Annie, you can bank on that. | |
| Under the Whip 15: Maybe he was banking on the Lad’s accident a week ago? | |
| Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 102: I’m banking on him. | |
| Widow Barony 122: [W]hen she said something you could bank on it. Not like most women he’d known who lied by instinct. | |
| Gonif 20: Only suckers and losers bank on what they have. | |
| Paradise Alley (1978) 216: ‘Be by at six?’ ‘Bank on it.’. | |
| He Died with His Eyes Open 25: There would have to be at least two of them, you can bank on that. | |
| Observer Cash 11 July 15: An online revolution in money management? Don’t bank on it. | |
| Robbers (2001) 29: I ain’t from nowhere. Well, I been there too [...] You can bank on it. |
(N.Z.) perfectly satisfactory, perfectly happy.
| ‘Tasma’ In her Earliest Youth II 178: There—now—don’t you fluff! Everything’s as right as the bank, I tell you. | |
| Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 145: She’s as right as the bank. | |
| For the Rest of Our Lives 301: ‘How’s the leg, Rusty?’ asked Frank [...] ‘Right as a bank. No trouble at all.’. | |
| Gun in My Hand 165: I’m all right I tell ya. Right as a bank. | |
| Breathing Spaces 81: Drink that up and you’ll be right as a bank. |
to place absolute confidence in (a piece of information).
| Shorthorn County 11 7: You can take it to the bank that this will be an excellent opportunity. | |
| Make Me a Star 196: 🎵 And you can take it to the bank , hoss, / That I am an outlaw , too! | |
| Hail to the Chiefs 56: ‘He doesn’t say very much, but when he does, you can take it to the bank’. | |
| H.R. 3703 US Congress 106: When he compliments you, you can take it to the bank. | |
| The 13th Juror 64: ‘He said a law enforcement officer did it [i.e. the murder of Martin Luther King], you can take that to the bank?’. | |
| Wash. Post (DC) 20 Jan. n.p.: Take it to the bank: Obama will veto the U.N. resolution. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 151: And before you ask, Bobby don’t stray. Take that to the bank. |