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- noun US slang, dated A
five -dollar bill (note ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were in shirt sleeves; smoking, chewing, spitting incessantly; lowering their voices for a moment so that she did not hear what they said and afterward giggling hoarsely; using over and over the canonical phrases: “Three to dole,” “I raise you a finif,” “Come on now, ante up; what do you think this is, a pink tea?”
Main Street 2004
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They were in shirt sleeves; smoking, chewing, spitting incessantly; lowering their voices for a moment so that she did not hear what they said and afterward giggling hoarsely; using over and over the canonical phrases: "Three to dole," "I raise you a finif," "Come on now, ante up; what do you think this is, a pink tea?"
Main Street 1920
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They were in shirt sleeves; smoking, chewing, spitting incessantly; lowering their voices for a moment so that she did not hear what they said and afterward giggling hoarsely; using over and over the canonical phrases: "Three to dole," "I raise you a finif," "Come on now, ante up; what do you think this is, a pink tea?"
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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“Now I vill give you �0 for dem all, and upon my shoul, I don’t expect to get a finif (�note) py de pargain.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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