Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) wealthy, well-off, albeit temporarily.

1930		L. Lower Here’s Luck 148: Straight from the Never-Never by the look of him. Is he cashed up?
1959		D. Niland Big Smoke 200: One of these days when I’m real cashed up like, I’m gonna get myself one of them trombones.
1961		B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 191: I couldn’t even go on the bash when we were cashed-up.
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 29: I’ve got the night off and I’m all cashed up.
2002		S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 168: [...] a less celebrated but evidently cashed-up restaurateur.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 43: cashed up, all Money in hand, earned or saved. Mid C20 ANZ.
2006		P. Carey Theft 81: He was sufficiently cashed-up so might have shouted me a real mixed grill.
2012		news.com.au 30 Nov. 🌐 Cashed-up ‘bogans in the burbs’ aren’t the only ones who think a McMansion is the ultimate pad.
2013		T. Black Ringer [ebook] n.p.: I need to get cashed-up with some easy money flogging Harry Hills to the clubbers.
2018		C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Hope you’re cashed up [...] You may need to post bail’.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 56: Cashed up and partied out.
2023		A. Nette Orphan Road 32: ‘[A] bunch of cashed up yuppies half my age’.