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- n. Plural form of benjamin.
Examples
“The problem with that defense of course, is that in this case "the public" we're talking about are not a bunch of high rollers throwing benjamins around a strip club to garner the attention of a surgically enhanced dancer, but students who have paid -- or rather whose parents have likely paid -- to ensure that they receive the best educational experience their money can buy.”
“It makes a significant difference in who can do them, what can be done and how they are funded (in goverment, it is always all about the benjamins).”
“I might feel different if i had to pony up the benjamins, but i'm glad i have one.”
“But as someone already said, it's all about the benjamins ...”
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““All about the Reagans” seems like a more accurate characterization of our Second Gilded Age ethos than the one about the benjamins.”
“Again, it just goes to prove that all the drama she made in the previous months was all about the benjamins … period!”
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“Since she quit the Governorship, though, and has been rolling in the benjamins (affording her, among other things, the time to preen on the culture circuit and to bring in more and better handlers), I've been seeing that awkwardness less and less, and I don't see it in this picture at all.”
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“It makes a significant difference in who can do them, what can be done and how they are funded in goverment, it is always all about the benjamins.”
“Proving the immortal words of the Diddy – it really is all about the benjamins …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘benjamins’.
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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coining it
coin, banknote, money, cash, sterling, pound, nelsons, readies, fiver, baht, euro, penny and 40 more...
Tweets
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reesetee As you wish. :-) Jun 1, 2010
ruzuzu Excellent!
Brackets around "upper benjamin," please. :-)
Jun 1, 2010
reesetee For what it's worth, OED describes this as an "overcoat of a particular shape formerly worn by men. (Still in slang or humorous use.)"--although it defines it in the singular. Some of the examples use the phrase "upper benjamin." Jun 1, 2010
Prolagus Why clothing? Couldn't it just be the plant? May 31, 2010
tedplayer I got the book "The Pleasures of Peacock"from my public library. It is a collection of all of Thomas Love Peacock's stories. Besides benjamins, his stories are a treasure trove of archaic words that I have been unable to locate from any source. Even if his writing isn't to your liking, he will have looking things up constantly. Check him out and happy hunting. May 31, 2010
ruzuzu I searched for "benjamins sir telegraph peel" and got this section from "The Contemporary review, Volume 25" in Google books, but I'm not sure it'll help:
"The heroine of " Melincourt " is Anthclia Melincourt, the heiress of Melincourt Castle and ten thousand a-year, an orphan as coy and with as many suitors as Penelope. Like Peacock's heroines, she must be won, nolens volens; and so, at the time of the story's action, a fashionable dame from town, and an elderly and allied country squire, are located at her modernized " Eagle's Nest," to receive the various suitors who may be "coming to woo." It gives a keen sense of the lapse of time since Melincourt first appeared to read of one of these, a four-in-hand man. Sir Telegraph Paxaret, " proceeding to peel" after a cold day's drive, and " emerging from his four benjamins, like a butterfly from its chrysalis." Not that Sir Telegraph is Peacock's hero, or Anthelia's hero. These are not identical, the second being a certain Silvan Forester, of Redrose Abbey, apparently a philosopher of the Escot type, who burrows for days and weeks in an old cemetery, in the hope of finding giant skulls to bolster up his theory of deterioration, yet withal a kindly philanthropist, who carries out the rales of the Anti-saccharine Society himself, but takes care that his tenants and cottagers shall be housed and fed, and let live like human beings." May 31, 2010
tedplayer Peacock writes very long sentences, but here is the portion containing the word. ...Sir Telegraph proceeded to peel, and emerged from his four benjamins, like a butterfly from its chrysalis.
May 31, 2010
john Fantastic — I'd love to see the citation. The sense I'm familiar with is "all about the benjamins", as in, $100 bills, on which Benjamin Franklin appears. Which is probably post-1817.
A Google define: search falls down pretty hard on this one. May 31, 2010
tedplayer I have a citation from Melincourt written in 1817 by Thomas Love Peacock in which benjamins appear to be a form of clothing. I can find no cases of this word used this way anywhere else. May 30, 2010