cash app

noun

An account on the mobile payment service Cash App.

Meanings

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verbcash app (third-person singular simple present cash apps, present participle cash apping, simple past and past participle cash apped)

present singular third person cash apps · participle present cash apping · participle past cash apped · past cash apped

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Cash App.

    She would cash app me her half of the rent, and I would pay it.

    2021, J. Antionette, chapter 9, in Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN
    2 more examples

    To me, if I call your name out during sex, just go ahead and cash app me the money so I can buy a wedding dress.

    2019, Diamond Johnson, Down With the King of the South, Leo Sullivan Presents, →ISBN

    However, some of them act like they requested a black SUV to impress their friends then they ask them to Venmo or cash app them $5–$8 apiece, so they were actually getting paid by their friends.

    2022, Divine Light, Divine Secrets of an Uber Driver, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN

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nounCash App (plural Cash Apps)

plural Cash Apps · alternative CashApp · alternative cash app · alternative cash-app

  1. informalAn account on the mobile payment service Cash App.

    “Fifty dollars in my Cash App and not a penny less.” / “Done.”

    2020 March, Rebekah Weatherspoon, chapter 10, in A Cowboy to Remember (Cowboys of California; 1), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN
    5 more examples

    “Right now, models want to accept money and people want to give us money, but there’s no way to make that happen,” she [Griffith] says. “My Cash App was shut down, and for what reason?” The answer, of course, is that sex workers are not a protected group within the United States, allowing payment processors to discriminate against them and the services they provide.

    2019 July–August, Lina Abascal, “Janice Griffith”, in Adam Penn, editor, Playboy Philippines, number 93, Playboy International Publishing, page 103, column 2

    This same friend that bought his glasses sent him $100 to my Cash App, and of course I had to ride down to the Northside from Ballwin, Missouri (25 minutes away). I handed him the money […]

    2021, Janlisa Parris, “Psycho Does What Psycho Does”, in Times in My Mind, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 48

    This dick ain’t free / If you wanna sit on it, that’ll be a couple hundred plus taxes / Hey, I know you could afford it / Both your parents are doctors / I’ll gladly take a pound of OG to compensate / if nothing is sent to my Cash App

    2022, Khali Raymond, “This dick ain’t free: still coming around???”, in The Gold Mind, 2nd edition, savage writer publishing, →ISBN

    Well, I didn’t see my monthly deposit in my Cash App. I thought we had an agreement on how this was gonna go?

    2022, Simone Kelly, “Chapter 6 - Journey”, in #1544, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, LLC, →ISBN

    He had me move 2 zips of K-2, and a little over 3 zips of meth for him. For making the move, he threw me $2,500 to my Cash App. A nice fee for the work done.

    2022 January 29, SHON the Blu’Prince [pseudonym], chapter 19, in Pink Collar Crimes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN
  2. informalA money transfer made using the mobile payment service Cash App.

    I added up all the months I helped him with his rent and all the random Cash Apps for $50 here and there.

    2020 January 8, K.D. Caldwell, “Run Me My Money”, in When Swiping Right Went Wrong: How I Almost Lost Everything in the Blink of an Eye, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 52
    3 more examples

    I’d hung up with Tiff in just the nick of time because Malaysia had made her way back outside and was heading my direction. Lucky for me, right as she approached the car, I got an alert that I’d received a Cash App for three hundred bucks.

    2022 September, Hazel Ro, I Didn’t Think You Existed 2: A Fool in Love, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, LLC, →ISBN

    “I am going to decorate the yard, and people can drive by and wave and leave gifts if they like or a Cash App.” Quarantine parties, Jesus.

    2023, Alida Jai Rogers, I’ve Been through Hell Trying to Make It Up to Heaven, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN

    And if we place capital, place tithes and offerings, checks, coins, Cash Apps right where racial justice is, where undoing White supremacy is, then it shifts the lens that we bring to the world we inhabit.

    2023, Jessica Norwood, quoting Andrew Wilkes, “Collective Action versus Go It Alone”, in Believe-in-You Money: What Would It Look Like if the Economy Loved Black People?, Oakland, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 99
verbCash App (third-person singular simple present Cash Apps, present participle Cash Apping, simple past and past participle Cash Apped)

present singular third person Cash Apps · participle present Cash Apping · participle past Cash Apped · past Cash Apped · alternative CashApp · alternative cash app · alternative cash-app

  1. ditransitiveinformalTo transfer money to someone using the mobile payment service Cash App.

    You once Cash Apped me two dollars to get you a soda from the fridge.

    2023, Lakita Wilson, Last Chance Dance, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 102
    2 more examples

    Bidding’s at $3,000. Anybody else? Going once, going twice, last call? Okay, sold! #369, Cash App me and I’ll have your purchase on its way no later than midnight today.

    2021, Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems, Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, Leiden: Brill | Sense, →ISBN, page 147

    Wanda was sitting there texting Dre, and she knew she was either going to be late for the party or she wasn’t going to make it ’cause Dre told her to be there when he got there and he had just Cash Apped her $500, so Wanda wasn’t moving until he left.

    2023, Baby Cash Houston, chapter 16, in Bounce Back, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN
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