Meanings
- slanguncountableBanknotes, paper money.
Look at the money they drop in the sand. Halves, quarters, dimes, even the folding stuff. I've found two hundred dollars already this winter.
1944, The New Yorker, volume 20, part 1, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61, column 12 more examples
Since North Americans are among the better-heeled portion of the world's population, it's only to be expected that they're pretty well supplied with folding stuff when they come to Mexico.
1964, In Mexico, It’s the Custom, Señor!, [Mexico]: Comité Norteamericano Pro México, →OCLC, page 13Folks around here 18 or 20 years ago who belonged to the writers' and poetry clubs and listened to a handsome, virile, teller of tales named Louis L'Amour, may be glad to know Louie seems to have caught up in Hollywood with some of that green, folding stuff he started reaching for long ago.
1968, Roy P. Stewart, Country Boy Hornbook, Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 83Synonyms: folding money, paper money
Synonyms & antonyms
nounBanknotes, paper money.
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