bank

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bank definition


  1. n.
    money; ready cash. (From bankroll.) : I can't go out with you. No bank.
  2. n.
    a toilet. (Where one makes a deposit.) : Man, where's the bank around here?
  3. tv.
    to gang up on and beat someone. (An intransitive version is bank on (so).) : They banked the kid and left him moaning.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bank

In addition to the idiom beginning with bank, also see break the bank; laugh all the way to the bank.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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