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cashed in

cashed in is the simple past and past participle of cash in.

Meaning of cash in

Verb

cash in (third-person singular simple present cashes in, present participle cashing in, simple past and past participle cashed in)

  1. To exchange for cash.
    • The gamblers cashed in their remaining chips at the end of the night.
  2. (intransitive) To settle one's debts, accounts, or bills, especially relating to gambling.
    • He's just mad because I haven't cashed in yet.
  3. (figuratively, often) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.
    • Lots of people tried to cash in on that market, but few succeeded.
  4. (slang) To die.
    • He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess; / And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."[…1907, Robert Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses
    Synonyms:
    assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit

Questions about cashed in

What is cashed in the simple past and past participle of?
Cashed in is the simple past and past participle of cash in.

Words near cashed in in the dictionary

  1. cashdrag
  2. cashdrags
  3. cashectomies
  4. cashectomy
  5. cashed
  6. cashed in
  7. cashed in one's chips
  8. cashed out
  9. cashed up
  10. cashed up bogan
  11. cashed up bogans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cashed in (page history and authors); cash in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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