smackeroonies

noun

smackeroonies

noun

Etymology From smackers (“money”) + -oon (“coin, amount”) + -y (“forming diminutives”) but typically only used in the plural. See also smackeroo & ackers.

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Humorous, Plural normally, Slang Synonym of smackers: Units of currency, or kisses.

  • ...the kind of man who certainly couldn't think much of you if, my goodness, you wouldn't spring ten thousand smackeroonies for a casket.1968, Norman Mailer, Miami and the siege of Chicago:
  • It's a comforting fallacy, especially when, as in the case of Iceman, you're about to reach deep into your pocket for a hundred smackeroonies.2000, Gordon Rogoff, Vanishing acts: theater since the sixties:
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  • ...smackeroonies will just keep rolling in for him. This is a man who will make more in a night than Michael Jordan gets paid in a year.2002, Daniel O'Connor, George Plimpton, Iron Mike: A Mike Tyson Reader:
  • "Fifty thousand smackeroonies! I could be out of debt!" She jumped out of bed and did a little jig.2005, Louise de Teliga, Fashion Slaves:
  • 5FU is cheap, it's abundant, it comes out of the lab quicker than a jackrabbit and it has just earned you 120 smackeroonies at 6-1.2007, Lucinda Jarrett, Creative Engagement in Palliative Care:

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