英语词汇“mexican bankroll”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Designating anything of inferior, fraudulent, or makeshift quality, as Mexican bankroll, Mexican promotion, etc.; (also) used in (humorous or ironic) names given to simple or basic devices or processes compared unfavourably with more advanced or sophisticated equivalents, as Mexican overdrive, Mexican side-loader, etc.

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1912 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 5 Mar. 14 I'm going to be a mexican athlete. Throw the bull about being a fighter and get away with it.

1935 Amer. Speech 10 79/1 Mexican seabag, a newspaper or paper bag in which the poor sailor carries his belongings.

1941 G. R. Lee G-string Murders xx. 286 What was harder for me to understand was where Biff got the bankroll. It was no Mexican; the twenties went right through to the bottom.]

1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 138/1 Mexican bankroll, 1. A roll of paper with a bank note of large denomination wrapped around the outside to simulate a bankroll—for use in swindling. 2. A roll of single bills wrapped inside a bank note of a large denomination to be exhibited for effect.

1955 Amer. Speech 30 94 Mexican overdrive, a term used for coasting down hill with gears disengaged.

1960 N.Z. Listener 21 Oct. 7/3 ‘The banjo?’ ‘A shovel. Some people call it a Mexican side-loader.’

1962 Western Folklore 21 28 A ‘Mexican credit card’, (a hose and siphon used for pilfering gasoline at night) is known in the Southwest.

1971 C. Winick & P. M. Kinsie Lively Commerce 117 A pimp often has a ‘Mexican bankroll’, a large bill on the outside covering a roll of singles.

1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 160 Mexican promotion, an offensive term meaning an impressive new title but no increase in pay.

单词	mexican bankroll
释义	> as lemmas Mexican bankroll a. Designating anything of inferior, fraudulent, or makeshift quality, as Mexican bankroll, Mexican promotion, etc.; (also) used in (humorous or ironic) names given to simple or basic devices or processes compared unfavourably with more advanced or sophisticated equivalents, as Mexican overdrive, Mexican side-loader, etc. ΚΠ 1912 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 5 Mar. 14 I'm going to be a mexican athlete. Throw the bull about being a fighter and get away with it. 1935 Amer. Speech 10 79/1 Mexican seabag, a newspaper or paper bag in which the poor sailor carries his belongings. 1941 G. R. Lee G-string Murders xx. 286 What was harder for me to understand was where Biff got the bankroll. It was no Mexican; the twenties went right through to the bottom.] 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 138/1 Mexican bankroll, 1. A roll of paper with a bank note of large denomination wrapped around the outside to simulate a bankroll—for use in swindling. 2. A roll of single bills wrapped inside a bank note of a large denomination to be exhibited for effect. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 94 Mexican overdrive, a term used for coasting down hill with gears disengaged. 1960 N.Z. Listener 21 Oct. 7/3 ‘The banjo?’ ‘A shovel. Some people call it a Mexican side-loader.’ 1962 Western Folklore 21 28 A ‘Mexican credit card’, (a hose and siphon used for pilfering gasoline at night) is known in the Southwest. 1971 C. Winick & P. M. Kinsie Lively Commerce 117 A pimp often has a ‘Mexican bankroll’, a large bill on the outside covering a roll of singles. 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 160 Mexican promotion, an offensive term meaning an impressive new title but no increase in pay. extracted from Mexicann.adj. < as lemmas
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