cash v.1
1. (US) to lend or give money.
Tempest and Sunshine 105: Tempest is in a desput hurry to know whether I’m goin’ to cash over and send her to market in New Orleans. | ||
Sketches from ‘Texas Siftings’ 41: Cash down, quick, or I’ll bounce you off at the next station we come to . | ||
Clueless [film script] Cash me a five, I’ll pay you back. |
2. to pass counterfeit money.
(ref. to 1950s) Wiseguy (2001) 16: Instead of going to school I’d go ‘cashing’ with Johnny Mazzolla [...] we’d go cashing counterfeit twenties he picked up from Beansie the counterfeiter. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
see separate entries.
(US, Western) to rob a bank at gunpoint.
A Sketch of Sam Bass (1956) 146: We didn’t want any racket until we could make a draw and cash our old white pistols. |
1. to die.
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 313: Everybody was trying to either cash out on Saturday night or cash somebody else out. |
2. to kill oneself.
Trick Baby (1996) 9: You’re Iceberg Slim, the pimp. You can’t cash out like a square. |
3. to murder, to kill.
see sense 1. | ||
Pimp 124: I’m going over there right now and cash them out. |
1. to pay up, to pay over; thus to pay one’s debts.
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 54: Antonio grew / In a deuce of a stew, / For he could not cash up, spite of all he could do. | ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in||
Paved with Gold 120: The gentlemen [...] vowed they would not ‘cash up’ until they had witnessed something more for their money. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 23 May 18/4: We are sorry for the imprisoned evangelists, the Reverends Dowie and Peter Campbell, who, as the world knows, are now in gaol at Melbourne – the former for howling in the streets and assaulting bailiffs, and the latter for not ‘cashing up’ to the ‘missus’ in accordance with a court order. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 12 July 12/1: [H]e can appeal to the Privy Council, but that would cost money, and we don’t suppose either of his wives will cash up. | ||
Amer. Sl. Dict. | ||
Mirror of Life 18 May 11/4: [I]t is rather hard, nevertheless, should you remark that [...] Charley Cashup don't give the same odds as Nicodemus Nofly. |
2. (Aus.) to earn money.
DSUE (8th edn) 187/2: C.20. |
3. (US campus) to work something out.
Campus Sl. Nov. 1: cash up – solve, think through, analyze. |