Re: RARA-AVIS: Iceberg Slim's vocabulary

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• Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:43:53 -0500
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Michael asks--
> About "frogskins" and "foreskin": Do they both mean "money," or something
> more specific? Or something entirely different?

>From _The Random House dictionary of American slang_: "Frogskin n. a
U.S. banknote; (specif.) a one-dollar bill; (pl.) money.  (With usage
dating back to 1902, and as recently as a 1987 episode of "Miami Vice."
A frogskin = greenback)

"Foreskins" is still a mystery; the Random House dictionary only
mentions this as Army and prison slang for creamed chipped beef. 
Wentworth's _Dictionary of American slang_ has no entry at all.

Jim Stephenson
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