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Texas roll

Texas roll noun: synonym of Michigan bankroll.

Noun

Texas roll (plural Texas rolls)

  1. (slang) Synonym of Michigan bankroll.
    • I was really showy with my money. Willie taught me the trick of carrying a lot of change and jingling it so that people'd think I was rich. And I carried a Texas roll – a wad of bills, mostly ones and fives with a few big bills on the outside and play money on the inside to make it fatter.1975, James Carr, Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr, Edinburgh: AK Press / Nabat, published 2002, →ISBN, page 53
    • And to show off, he used to carry a Texas roll, a huge roll of money made up of one-dollar and five-dollar bills with large denominations on the outside and phoney money inside to increase its size.1983, Maurice Cusson, translated by Dorothy R. Crelinsten, Why Delinquency?, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 103

Synonyms of Texas roll

Forms of Texas roll

pluralTexas rolls

Questions about Texas roll

What does Texas roll mean?
Texas roll means synonym of Michigan bankroll.
What part of speech is Texas roll?
Texas roll is a noun.
What is the plural of Texas roll?
The plural of Texas roll is Texas rolls.

Words near Texas roll in the dictionary

  1. Texas ratio
  2. Texas ratios
  3. Texas recluse
  4. Texas rig
  5. Texas rigs
  6. Texas roll
  7. Texas rolls
  8. Texas root rot
  9. Texas sacahuiste
  10. Texas sharpshooter fallacies
  11. Texas sharpshooter fallacy

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