mad money
mad money
noun Informal.
1.
a small sum of money carried or kept in reserve for minor expenses, emergencies, or impulse purchases.
2.
a small sum of money carried by a woman on a date to enable her to reach home alone in case she and her escort quarrel and separate.
Origin:
1915–20
1915–20
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Mad money
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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