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  • interjection US, Canada, Australia Score!; Wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make lots of money.
  • noun Money, cash.
  • verb To make a cash register or slot machine noise.
  • verb To make the noise of coins falling.

Etymologies

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Onomatopoeia, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the 1992 movie Wayne's World and by a 1992 advertisement featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Rally's Hamburgers, Inc.

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