Beaucoup bucks (1946, 1963)

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BEAUCOUP BUCKS--34,100 Google hits
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HDAS has "beaucoup," but not "beaucoup bucks."
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>From today's New York Sun:
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_Free-Agent Busts Offer Lesson in Frugality_
(http://www.nysun.com/article/32082)
New York Sun, NY -  <NOBR>11 hour
... Deluded into thinking they were  contenders, the cash-strapped franchise
committed beaucoup bucks  to a 30-year-old guard who doesn't defend and has
sore knees. ...
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(GOOGLE)
_http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaucoup+bucks_
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaucoup+bucks)
beaucoup bucks

A lot of money (see _beaucoup_
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaucoup) ).
Kid: How much money do you make?
Me: I won't  tell you exactly, but I'll say that I make beaucoup bucks.
by _some guy_ (http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=some+guy)
Jun 3, 2004  _email it_ (javascript:void(0))
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     _Port Arthur News, The_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=MSL63G2EslCKID/6NLMW2kxRHP9uB3i6yzBqMh9J6uUzaScMZJ2TFEIF+CsZYmrz)  _Friday,
September 06, 1946_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+date:1946-09-06)  _Port  Arthur,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+cityid:23362+AND+stateid:94)
_Texas_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+stateid:94)   ...BEAUCOUP BUCKS brewery heir, and Jeannie  Masters Joe Erons,
Hollywood story ..
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(Winchell colum--ed.)
...Lionel Shelley, beaucoup-bucks brwery heir, and Jeannie  Masters...
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     _Manitowoc Herald Times_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=WIIwbfg7DKmKID/6NLMW2l1oOd/X/42RKRuztZWh29lSmSRKcdSiJkIF+CsZYmrz)
_Wednesday,  September 04, 1963_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+date:1963-09-04)  _Manitowoc,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+cityid:17424+AND+stateid:73)
_Ohio_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+stateid:73)   ...They'll Do It  Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo suf' ,r CLUB
LUMCMEON, GIVES AWAY  BEAUCOUP BUCKS ..

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     _Stevens Point Daily Journal_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=WIIwbfg7DKmKID/6NLMW2pDeZE4bvjf81niqKojIUG4vP/EPiYw06kIF+CsZYmrz)
_Wednesday,  September 04, 1963_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+date:1963-09-04)  _Stevens  Point,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+cityid:28055+AND+stateid
:103)  _Wisconsin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="beaucoup+bucks"+AND+stateid:103)   ...BEAUCOUP BUCKS OF FREE LEGAL ADVICE TO HIS
PAL  WHEM GALLSTONE MAS A PEALLV  ..

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