long green

long green
Money, especially in the form of cash.

"Why, a guy come to me and wants to give me half a ton of the long green to go to dat poiper what youse was woikin on and fix de guy whats runnin it."


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  • long green — ☆ long green n. Slang PAPER MONEY …   English World dictionary

  • long green — noun slang : paper money : cash the boy will have plenty of the long green in a couple of years Raymond Chandler * * * Slang. paper money; cash. [1890 95, Amer.] * * * long green, U.S. Slan …   Useful english dictionary

  • long green — n American money (dollar bills of all denominations in America are coloured green). The euphemism is old, dating from the turn of the 20th century, and is still in use. ► We ll soon have enough of that long green to choke a horse. (Knight Rider,… …   Contemporary slang

  • Long Green, Maryland — Long Green is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.References*gnis|590695 …   Wikipedia

  • Long green wrasse — Taxobox name = Long green wrasse image caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Perciformes familia = Labridae genus = Pseudojuloides species = P. elongatus binomial = Pseudojuloides… …   Wikipedia

  • long green — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange: cash, currency, lucre, money. Informal: wampum. Slang: bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, mazuma, moola, scratch. Chiefly… …   English dictionary for students

  • long green — Go to long bread …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • long green — noun Date: circa 1891 slang money …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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