cash money

cash money noun: cash, or a thing easily converted to cash, as opposed to credit.

Noun

cash money (uncountable)

(emphatic, slang) Cash, or a thing easily converted to cash, as opposed to credit.
- So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine

cash money (comparative more cash money, superlative most cash money)

(humorous, slang) Highly desirable; beneficent or conveying high status.
- Two countries are beating us in the tattoo game. Not by much, but they’re beating us. Italy leads the world at 48 percent. Sweden comes in at No. 2 with 47 percent. And the U.S., for purposes of this discussion, picks up the bronze medal. Not very cash money of you, U.S. You’re slippin’.2019 February, Robb Murray, “Ink, grapplers and pioneers”, in Mankato Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 6
- That’s not very cash money of you / Dear Editors, / What the fuck is up with SSAF allocation?2021, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Honi Soit, week 9, semester 1, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of Sydney, page 3, column 2

This year has been very cash money thank you everyone and goodbye!2021 May, Kilgore High School Mirror, volume 21, number 4, Kilgore, Tex.: Kilgore High School:
That wouldn't be very cash money of you.2021 May 18, Thomas Smith, “Ending It”, in The Stinger, Kingfisher, Okla.: Kingfisher High School, page 6:
Believing the J and J team dirtied their pure status, Connor Big Lebowski challenged the campaign in a duel of words saying quote “That wasn’t very cash money of you.”2022 April 5, Lady FlatHatDown [pseudonym], “Corsets, Eye-Contact, Tea, and Student Assembly”, in The Fat Head, Williamsburg, Va.: College...
An example of this is a meme of Godzilla wearing sunglasses and declaring, “That wasn’t very cash money of you” (in this case, “cash money” is slang for beneficent behavior).2023, David M. Goodman, Matthew Clemente, editors, The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology...

comparative	more cash money
superlative	most cash money

What does cash money mean?: Cash money means cash, or a thing easily converted to cash, as opposed to credit.
How do you use cash money in a sentence?: This year has been very cash money thank you everyone and goodbye!
What part of speech is cash money?: Cash money can be a noun or an adjective.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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