slum

[Wilson Gray]

WAG: some kind of phonetico-phonological word-play based on "simoleon"
or some related but now-lost term?

-Wilson

On 7/6/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Here it transparently means "a dollar."  But why?  I don't believe I've seen this sense before.
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>   1863 _Hooley's Opera House Songster_ (N.Y.: Dick & FitzGerald) 32: "So I‭'‭ll go and jump a bounty, / And have a little spree." / Joe went and put his name down,/  And got three hundred " slums," / And then skedaddled and ran away.
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