smackeroonies

smackeroonies

English

Noun

smackeroonies pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Smackers (dollars or pounds); money.
   • 1968, Norman Mailer, Miami and the siege of Chicago

     ...the kind of man who certainly couldn't think much of you if, my goodness, you wouldn't spring ten thousand smackeroonies for a casket.

   • 2000, Gordon Rogoff, Vanishing acts: theater since the sixties

     It's a comforting fallacy, especially when, as in the case of Iceman, you're about to reach deep into your pocket for a hundred smackeroonies.

   • 2002, Daniel O'Connor, George Plimpton, Iron Mike: A Mike Tyson Reader

     ...smackeroonies will just keep rolling in for him. This is a man who will make more in a night than Michael Jordan gets paid in a year.

   • 2005, Louise de Teliga, Fashion Slaves

     "Fifty thousand smackeroonies! I could be out of debt!" She jumped out of bed and did a little jig.

   • 2007, Lucinda Jarrett, Creative Engagement in Palliative Care

     5FU is cheap, it's abundant, it comes out of the lab quicker than a jackrabbit and it has just earned you 120 smackeroonies at 6-1.