Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cash v.1

1. (US) to lend or give money.

[US]M.J. Holmes 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.
[US]Sweet & Knox Sketches from ‘Texas Siftings’ 41: Cash down, quick, or I’ll bounce you off at the next station we come to .
[US]A. Heckerling Clueless [film script] Cash me a five, I’ll pay you back.

2. to pass counterfeit money.

[US] (ref. to 1950s) N. Pileggi 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

cash in

see separate entries.

cash one’s pistol (v.) [joc. image of presenting a pistol at the counter rather than a cheque]

(US, Western) to rob a bank at gunpoint.

[US]C.L. Martin 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.
cash out (v.)

1. to die.

[US]C. Brown 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.

[US]‘Iceberg Slim’ 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.
[US]‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 124: I’m going over there right now and cash them out.
cash up (v.)

1. to pay up, to pay over; thus to pay one’s debts.

[UK]R. Barham ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 54: Antonio grew / In a deuce of a stew, / For he could not cash up, spite of all he could do.
[UK]A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 120: The gentlemen [...] vowed they would not ‘cash up’ until they had witnessed something more for their money.
[Aus]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.
[Aus]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.
[US]J. Maitland Amer. Sl. Dict.
[UK]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.

[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 187/2: C.20.

3. (US campus) to work something out.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 1: cash up – solve, think through, analyze.