Texas roll

plural Texas rolls

1. slangSynonym of Michigan bankroll.

   And to show off, he used to carry a Texas roll, a huge roll of money made up of one-dollar and five-dollar bills with large denominations on the outside and phoney money inside to increase its size.

   1983, Maurice Cusson, translated by Dorothy R. Crelinsten, Why Delinquency?, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 103

   2 more examples

   I was really showy with my money. Willie taught me the trick of carrying a lot of change and jingling it so that people'd think I was rich. And I carried a Texas roll – a wad of bills, mostly ones and fives with a few big bills on the outside and play money on the inside to make it fatter.

   1975, James Carr, Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr, Edinburgh: AK Press / Nabat, published 2002, →ISBN, page 53

   Another black fellow arrived and, Davis recalled, he had “a big roll of money, a Texas roll, looked like a lot of money. The guy says, 'Hey, man, did you ever play three–card monte?' I'm crazy. I'm young.”

   2007, Steve Jacobson, Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 158

   Synonyms: Michigan bankroll