money n.
1. ref. to the commercial potential of the organs.
(a) esp. of young girls, the vagina.
| , , | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Money, a girl’s private parts, commonly applied to little children: as, take care, miss, or you will shew your money. |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1785]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocabulum 56: money A private place. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. | |
| Maledicta IX 150: The original argot of prostitution includes some words and phrases which have gained wider currency and some which have not […] money (on a girl the pussy). |
(b) of boys, the anus; thus used as a form of address between homosexual men.
| Queens’ Vernacular 137: money [...] ‘I’ll follow you anywhere money, er, I mean, honey!’. | |
| Maledicta IX 150: The original argot of prostitution includes some words and phrases which have gained wider currency and some which have not […] money ([...] on a boy the anus). |
2. choice; lit. money’s worth.
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 91/1: I sell dry fruit, sir, in February and March, because I must be doing something, and green fruit’s not my money then. | |
| Essex Newsman 10 Oct. 2/2: I ain’t everybody’s money. I’m too little for a swell coachman, and too big for a jockey. |
3. (US) in general, the critical element or aspect, used fig., e.g. that’s where the money is.
| Billy Baxter’s Letters 55: Isn’t that love lump all the money, though? It makes a well-developed case of indigestion look like a sunny summer day. | |
| Down the Line 13: I was anxious to make Clara Jane think that she was all the money. | |
| ‘Words & Music’ in Top-Notch 15 June 🌐 Hit that ‘do’ key; harder, Miss Hemp [...] It sounds like money. | |
| Gay-cat 157: It sounds like the money all right, Red, but I dunno. | |
| ‘Pearls Are a Nuisance’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 132: That Sunday punch of yours was the money. | |
 | Eggs, Beans & Crumpets ((1951)) 247: [T]he old Stepper wasn’t everybody’s money. | |
| et al. DAUL 106/1: If money. If things turn out well. ‘I meet the Board (Parole Board) next month, so I’ll be back on the turf (out stealing) in a couple of months if money.’. | |
| Cannibals 226: He looked like the friggin’ money. |
4. (US black, also money dog, money grip) one’s best friend.
| Campus Sl. Nov. | |
| ‘We Thuggin’ 🎵 Money lookin happy with his wife but we triz that. |
5. (also money grip) a man; a rich man.
| ‘Just to Get a Rep’ 🎵 Money was scared so he panicked. | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. 6: money grip – person who has money and flaunts it. | |
| Tuff 52: Money was worth a couple of hundred mil at least. | |
| Franchise Babe 148: ‘Jack, you of all people should know that golf tournaments today are named whatever the money wants them named’ . |
6. a general form of address to any man.
| et al. ‘The Message’ 🎵 What’s up, money? | |
| Clockers 121: He nodded to the kid. ‘What’s up, Money?’. | |
| Tuff 218: Sorry about that, Money, but you know how it is when you doing business. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. a lover of money.
| Knave of Spades & Diamonds 103: To Mr. Mony-Bag the Userer . | |
| Isabella in Complete Poems (1982) 188: How could these money-bags see east and west? | |
| Sportsman 11 Feb. 2/1: Notes on News [...] [Y]our jiiter (female) led to the altar by paralytic and hideously uglv Moneybags. | |
| Cornishman 12 Aug. 8/3: Marquis Money-bags! This notable member of Upper Tendom enforces payment from Sunday scholars. | |
| Wild Tribes of London in Illus. Police News 22 Feb. 12/3: ‘Well, old money-bags [...] you cursed old thief’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1830s–60s) All That Swagger 372: My father’s vision will be bearing the fruit of life when the money-bags kind of success is suppressed as out-of-date barbarism. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 20 Feb. 5: Moneybags: both Paula Yates [...] and Elizabeth Taylor [...] had expensive partners. |
2. (also money-bagger) a wealthy person; often as Mr Moneybags.
| Wheel of Fortune IV ii: I’ll marry that money-bag, and enrich you with the pillage of it. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Cork Examiner 15 June 4/4: Letter XI. from The rev. Gabriel Storkes, Rector of Moneybags-cum-Hassocks, To Sir Finkin Clump. | |
| N. Devon Jrnl 17 Dec. n.p.: Two Electioneering requirements — wnd-bags and money-bags. | |
| Mrs Rasher’s Curtain Lectures 56: The only comfort I’ve had to-night was when I was resting on the sofa beside Mrs. Moneybags, talking over our new dresses — there! | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Mar. 22/4: Had he written three figures, he would have been taken for a ‘mere colonial money-bags,’ who gave to the titled delegates of fashionable pauperism in the same ostentatious way as the old-fashioned Yank used to throw his dollars at the Langham hotel waiter. | |
| Whitstable Times 7 Sept. 3/3: Miss Moneybags: ‘Malcolm, a suspicion lurks within me that you don’t love me, but want to marry me for my money’. | |
| ‘More Echoes from the Old Museum’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 182: And the People’s Bill was squashed, and ‘Moneybags’ exulted. | |
| Orange Girl I 48: What? You have deserted the money-bags? | |
| Eve. Standard 23 Sept. 3/3: King Moneybags [...] The Rule of the Millionaire. | |
| Soggarth Aroon 200: The post of scullery maid [...] in the service, perhaps, of some upstart ‘moneybags’. | |
| Side-stepping with Shorty 9: I’ve been up against the money bags so close I expect you can find eagle prints all over me. | |
| Derby Dly Teleg. 28 May 2/7: ld Moneybags is afraid that [the] Prince he bought for his daughter is a bogus one. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Dec. 13/4: Besides, when the clever son of the poor man has the same chance of superior education as a Moneybag’s offspring, the latter is likely to have to earn his crust with a pick and shovel a good deal oftener than he does at present. | |
| New York Day By Day 5 Jan. [synd. col.] Al Salven [...] tells of a Fifth Avenue moneybags who blew into his home the other morning [etc]. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Aberdeen Jrnl 4 June n.p.: Mr Mosley said Socialism had captured the world already. It would not be deterred by a few moneybags. | |
| ‘A Nice Price’ Runyon on Broadway (1954) 192: Who is my papa but an old moneybags. | |
| Murphy (1963) 55: For what was all working for a living but a procuring and a pimping for the money-bags, one’s lecherous tyrants the money-bags. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 24 Apr. 20/1: A big money-bag is trying to get him for the star spot in a new club proposed for the Stem. | |
| Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 8 July 2/2: Said the prety crooneer to her wealthy admirer: ‘You’re such a darling, Mr Moneybags. Please don’t think I love you because you’re worth a million’. | |
| Seeds of Man (1995) 379: I’ll see how much dough I c’n raise up when I uncork my mouth an’ tell my grubstake troubles ta my old, rich, money-bagger Aunt. | |
| Big Heat 40: Me, the fat-tailed moneybags, so they say. | |
| At Night All Cats Are Grey 226: Uncle Moneybag’s photograph seemed to promise the certainty of honourable mention in his last will and testaments. | |
| Stand (1990) 183: Tell moneybags here to pay for it. | |
| Bat-21 135: What say, moneybags? | |
| ‘Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool’ Catching Up with Hist. 12: Christ our merchant prince, old money-bags in frockcoat, toffee-nosed, and well-to-do. | |
| Goodoo Goodoo 69: ‘Let me shout this time.’ ‘All right moneybags. If you insist’. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Sun. Times (S.Afr.) 6 Jan. 1: Mr Moneybags: Schabir Shaik forked out for all Zuma’s needs. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 31: She said, ‘What’s up, money bags?’ I said what’s up but just looked at her like you got the wrong person with the money bags name. |
wealthy.
| Reinhart in Love (1963) 98: The present client is the black sheep, the foul ball, of the moneybags clan who own [etc.]. | |
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 37: Mick Jagger gets immediate pie-ority as a fake moneybags revolutionary. | |
| Muscle for the Wing 12: He [...] saw so many of the things he’d never liked reflected in these tony, awestruck, money-bag types. | |
| Guardian Rev. 6 Nov. 8: Her moneybags father had been found dead in the library. | |
| Eve. Standard (Lonmdon) 20 Aug. 43/1: What does Jezza think of moneybags Brinks? |
the vagina.
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 45: Boursavit, f. The female pudendum; ‘the money-bag’ [Ibid.] 101: Écu, m. The female pudendum; ‘the money-box’. |
(US) a millionaire.
| People 20 Mar. in (1909) 177/1: It is estimated, I see, that the Vanderbilt family of millionaires [...] afford employment for three millions of human beings. The happiness or the misery of three millions of people wholly dependent on the whims and caprices of, say, half a dozen ‘money bugs’. | |
| Cabbages and Kings 337: The chief had got together the same old crowd of moneybugs with pink faces and white vests to see us march in. | |
| Seattle Repub. (WA) 22 July 3/1: The money bugs are supporting Parker almost to a man. |
(W.I.) a foolish spendthrift.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Jamaica Superstitions 43: Money Cuffie:– A fellow who can afford it, and rather makes a boast of his means. |
see sense 4
see gold-dropper n.
1. see sense 4
2. see sense 5
(US) the vagina.
| In the Life 41: Well, hole, snatch. You know, my money machine, that’s what I thought of. The cash register. | |
| Government Inspected 13: That’s a money machine down there....I ain’t no charity worker, dummy [HDAS]. |
1. the vagina.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Anecdota Americana II 21: Liza [...] saw the reflection of her pussy in one of the puddles. She playfully pointed her finger at the reflection and said, ‘There you is, you little ol’ moneymaker.’. | |
| [ | | Dust Tracks On a Road (1995) 693: You kiss my black, independent, money-making ass!]. |
| ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ 🎵 She won’t shake her moneymaker, won’t shake her moneymaker, She wanna roll her activator. | |
| Lex. Black Eng. 88: Her [i.e. a whore’s] sexual equipment may be a moneymaker or a money ’cumulator. | |
| Lowspeak. | |
| ‘Housewife’ 🎵 I mostly sold dick while I packed a gold clip / Worked my money-maker, she got paper, she bout to trip. |
2. (US) the female buttocks; also used of gay men.
| 17 Mar. [synd. col.] Miss Ayres almost backed into the path of an auto [...] ‘Gee,’ she said, ‘I almost got hit on my moneymaker’. | |
| ‘Roll Your Money Maker’ 🎵 Roll your money maker / Baby don't you hesitate / Roll your money pretty baby / Oh baby don't you hesitate . | |
| ‘Shake Your Moneymaker’ 🎵 You gotta shake your moneymaker / shake your moneymaker. | |
| City of Night 100: ‘Shake that moneymakuh, honey! —’ (this to a spadequeen swishing by). | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 107: hit somebody in the cocksucker and knock him on his moneymaker to hit somebody in the face so hard that the blow knocks him on his ass. | |
| Fort Apache, The Bronx 100: She did a slow walk down the hallway, hips swaying, heels clicking. She could still shake that money maker. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐. | |
| ‘Snake’ 🎵 Let your moneymaker jump now. | |
| Baffler 23 🌐 Or there’s the sassy secretary who shakes her moneymaker all the way to the corner office (Working Girl). |
3. (US black) in fig. use, of an individual, idea or other form of possession: that which creates a profit .
| Earl Wilson’s New York 20: Their [i.e. ‘streetwalkers’] slickly prosperous-looking pimps wheel sporty-looking cars to the curbs and joke with each other as they wait for their money-makers. | |
| Giveadamn Brown (1997) 186: Well, he had started out as a pimp, and now maybe he had a who here who possessed a four-million-dollar money-maker. | |
| ‘If You Were Only White’ 5: Some of the favorite fishing spots down by the Bay were always good for a few discarded moneymakers. |
(US black) the vagina.
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 money pocket Definition: [...] 2. the vaginal region of a female prostitute Example: Yo, bitch you ain’t makin no money, work dat money pocket and get me some cash, now!!! You slut like a retarded midget. |
(US) an automatic teller machine.
| in N.Y. Times Mag. 23 May 14: Moneypuker; a vivid word picture for ‘automatic teller machine’. | |
| Englischlehrer.de 🌐 money puker: an automatic teller machine/cashpoint (Geldautomat). |
1. in pornographic still or moving pictures, a close-up of the genitalia, male or female at the moment of ejaculation (which for purposes of ‘verisimilitude’ always takes place outside the body); also used in non pornographic contexts (see cite 2010).
| Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 20: money shot n. The scene in a pornographic film where the leading man makes a small deposit from Kojak’s moneybox (qv), usually over the leading lady’s stomach. A pop-shot. | |
| Guardian 10 May 19: The end credit for Ali G features a cartoon of an erect penis ejaculating: in the language of porn this is the ‘money shot’. | |
| Nature Girl 203: Tell her how much the guy’s old lady was gonna pay for the money shot! | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 73: Contemporary terms like street oyster (a used condom), money shot (ejaculation), Narnia (an extremely closeted client), and Whale Rider (a worker who specialises in very fat men). | |
| Spectator 4 Oct. 13/1: So here they all are [...] the money shots, the porno pics, the female genitalia. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 387: ‘Vinegar Strokes? What’s that when it’s at home?’ ‘Oh... whoops haha hrrm I thought... you know - I thought you knew. But Christ it’s better than if they called you Moneyshot’. |
2. also fig. use, the big climax.
| Observer Screen 13 Feb. 2: The People’s Princess speech became his political ‘money shot’ – the one that led to those ludicrous and unsustainable 93 per cent popularity ratings. | |
| Source Aug. 118: The 12-story historical building is the money shot. | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] [of a striptease act] In the last thirty seconds of the song I got down on my fluffy white rug for what some girls delicately referred to as floor work, but I liked to call the money shot. | |
| Happy Mutant Baby Pills 166: People love seeing other people die. Blood spatter is the new money shot. | |
| Scrublands [ebook] If he’s still the only one there when Martin and Mandy emerge together he’ll be more jovial still: the money shot will be his and his alone. |
(US black) a very rich person.
| ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ Novels and Stories (1995) 1007: I got money’s mammy and Grandma change. | |
| Game 177: They [i.e. a school] must have had money’s mama, because they came in really fine blue-and-gray buses. |
the vagina.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 182: Other references to function occur in money spinner. |
In phrases
(US) money that one cannot afford to lose.
| (con. 1950s) Whoreson 100: It would gradually accelerate until most of the players were wagering the don’t-go money. |
(US) a sure thing; something for which one need make no effort.
| Power 49:12 9: That’s the language hectorspeaks when he faces [...] eight miles of scale-clogged boiler tubes [and]he walks into the scale like it was money from home! | |
| Our Daily Bread 135: ‘He was too clever this time. He would insist that it was “money from home” as he called it. I drew up the contract’. | |
| Two O’Clock Courage 236: Hillyers, why he grabbed [the hunch] an’ et it up alive like it was money from home. | |
| My Life in S. Africa 97: The King saw these fifty [cal;ves], amnd some not too bad, [...] money from home, as you may say. | |
| Nobody Lives for Ever 36: The set-up was perfect for him. A push. He couldn’t miss. Money from home. |
see under Maxwell Pond n.
a dismissive phr. aimed at a person.
| Women in Prison 3: Money talks, bullshit walks. If you’re a Kennedy and you get busted for dope, you never do time. | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 85: MONEY TALKS, BULLSHIT WALKS — Put your money where your mouth is. | |
| New Jack City [film script] Money talks. Bullshit runs the marathon. | |
| A Man in Full 559: Money talks and bullshit walks. | |
| Rope Burns 210: See there [...] Money talk and bullshit walk, like the man say. | |
| Sellout (2016) 13: Money talks, bullshit walks . . . Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo. |
(US) to induce by the lure of money.
| You Gotta Play Hurt 201: ‘You have to go for the money.’ ‘You wouldn’t.’ ‘I’d like to think I wouldn’t, but I’ve never been money-whipped that bad’ . | |
| Rude Behavior 296: I showed her the stadium going up—guys working through the holidays, money-whipped by her daddy. |
(orig. US) excellent, perfect, just right.
| Serenade to the Big Bird 36: I checked the oil pressure and tuned the RPM on the money. | |
| Sat. Rev. (US) 4 Nov. 28: [The article] on politcal double talk from a poet’s vantage point was right on the money. | |
| House of Slammers 226: You’re right on the money, Brotha Wally. | |
| Et Tu, Babe (1993) 76: Was I absolutely, 100 percent on-the-money when I hired Desiree Buttcake or what? | |
| Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] The little hitman was always on the money. | |
| Shame the Devil 160: You were right on the money, Reverend Bob. | |
| Drawing Dead [ebook] I figure they’re looking for anything valuable ’cause they figure I got no money. Both parties were on the money. | |
| Scrublands [ebook] ‘Excellent. Right on the money’. | |
| Opal Country 360: ‘[H]is assessment of the conditions looks to be on the money’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 162: H. G. Wells was very definitely on the money when it came to the future of the race. |
(orig. US) fig., to back one’s boasting with suitable action; lit., to back one’s opinions with wagered money.
| ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 1003: ‘Put your money where your mouth is!’ he challenged, as he mock-struggled to haul out a huge roll. ‘Back your crap with your money.’. | |
| Go, Man, Go! 42: Say did you put your money where your mouth is? | |
| (con. 1940s) Death of an Irish Town 26: The ‘ignorant bosthoon of a spailpeen’ who told you ‘put your money where your mouth is’ in too many arguments. | |
| False Starts 289: I either had to shit some real art or get off the pot, put my money where my mouth had always been. | |
| Paco’s Story (1987) 6: Put your money where your mouth is, Slopehead. |
1. (US) spec. the way in which experienced gamblers bet.
| [ | | Sportsman (London) 1 Dec.. 2/1: Notes on News [...] One of the harpies was [...] charged with having in his possession pair of soldier's boots, the property, course, of the nation. He was fined 12l. 11s. 6d.—considerable ‘smart money’ for such a small venture]. |
| [ | | Fifty Years (2nd edn) I 240: One or two paid ‘smart money’ [i.e. to get out of the army]]. |
| Amer. Mercury Dec. 464/2: In referring to money wagered by persons with good tips or information, the term used is smart money . | |
| Iron Man 5: All the smart money’s on the black boy. | |
| ‘On Broadway’ 6 Aug. [synd. col.] The Smart Money must be on the Dems. | |
| Look Long Upon a Monkey 49: I’d figure you’re right about this Coolavin. Looks like all the smart money’s on. | |
| Loser 45: A lot of smart money on him. The big boys know. | |
| Loser 36: That [i.e. late heavy betting] usually means a horse is hot and the smart-buck boys have waited until right before the start to throw it in. | |
| Thief 183: All the smart money that day was on a long shot. | |
| Digger’s Game (1981) 9: I bet with the smart money this time. | |
| Outside Shot 95: ‘[I]f we lose, he wins because we didn’t beat the spread. That’s smart money, man’. | |
| Lowspeak. |
2. (US Und.) a clever and successful criminal.
| et al. DAUL 199/1: Smart money. A clever and successful racketeer; any shrewd person. ‘That ghee (fellow) is real smart money.’. | |
| Outside Shot 95: ‘The Fat Man is smart money. Guys like that don’t lose’. |
3. attrib. use of sense 2.
| Young and Violent 36: Pushing caps for a smart money man Tea knows only by the name Ace. |
4. in fig. use, good sense.
| Big Ask 1: The smart money was home in bed. |
(Aus.) to be very mean.
| DSUE (8th edn) 1226: [...] since ca. 1950. |
to spend an extravagant amount of money on something, esp. in the hope of remedying a problem.
| Guardian G2 11 Oct. 16: I don’t like its unreliability – I’ve thrown a lot of money at that car. | |
| Guardian G2 5 Jan. 5: We will do anything they tell us, throw any amount of money in their direction, just as long as they keep our computers working. |