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  • noun Plural form of sawbuck.

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Examples

  • What you get for your 3.5 sawbucks are plus, reclining seats, better food and beverages (but really, what's better than that sandwich you sneaked in, all smashed up from your purse?) and seat-side waiter service (like the Alamo Draft House in Austin!).

    The Front Page: March 26, 2008 2008

  • Despite the fact that it was still happy hour along most of the Eastern seaboard, a brace of name-brand whiskeys at Coyote Ugly relieved me of a brace of sawbucks:

    From the BSNYC Culture Desk: "The Belle of the Ball Bearings" (A Musical) BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Until they toss a couple of sawbucks my way, then, these people should merely be considered great big pains in the ass.

    saru-san Diary Entry saru-san 2006

  • Don't forget...that's in Cdn dollars so think about Yankee sawbucks and figure how overpriced those little houses are!

    let's be honest... 2006

  • And this isn't Driscol going soft on Jackson either; Flint the author needed Jackson to support Houston's never-explicated plan to build a Cherokee nation across the Mississippi, so Jackson is designed as something other than the moonshine-mad, wild-eyed lunatic who graces our sawbucks.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • And this isn't Driscol going soft on Jackson either; Flint the author needed Jackson to support Houston's never-explicated plan to build a Cherokee nation across the Mississippi, so Jackson is designed as something other than the moonshine-mad, wild-eyed lunatic who graces our sawbucks.

    The Rivers of War 2005

  • Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.

    Main Street 2004

  • Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.

    Main Street 1920

  • Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • On the strength of that I doubles my grubstake, and he no sooner gets his hands on the two sawbucks than he starts for the street.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

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