long-tailed one

noun

long-tailed one

noun
1

Archaic, Slang A banknote of high denomination.

  • He said these people were going to leave with two other men on the Tuesday for the West Coast. That he saw a good deal of money with one person of the four and some "long tailed ones."1924, Richard Hill, The Maungatapu Mountain Murders, page 65:

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