Michigan bankroll
English
Noun
Michigan bankroll (plural Michigan bankrolls)
- (slang) A high-denomination banknote wrapped around a number of smaller ones, intended to look like more money than it actually is.
- Synonym: California bankroll
- 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King (page 136)
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. A grand will make a bulge so big you can't get it in your pocket."
"That's okay. I've carried Michigan bankrolls before."
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. A grand will make a bulge so big you can't get it in your pocket."
- 2009, Frank E. Hagan, Crime Types and Criminals (page 173)
- She showed them some loose twenties (the rest of the roll of money actually consists of a “Michigan bankroll” of phony money), and the three women discussed the situation for a while.