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- noun Plural form of
benjamin .
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Examples
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And as far as my "benjamins" running out, again, more bullshit that you just pulled out of nowhere because … … a) I am not running out of money by any means of the word b) I will always have more money than you c) I use my money to help others and improve my drag …. two things that would probably benefit you, Greg.
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
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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.
Keli Goff: BREAKING: Charlie Sheen Offered Higher Speaking Fee Than President Clinton Keli Goff 2011
tedplayer commented on the word benjamins
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
john commented on the word benjamins
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 commented on the word benjamins
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
ruzuzu commented on the word benjamins
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 commented on the word benjamins
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
Prolagus commented on the word benjamins
Why clothing? Couldn't it just be the plant?
June 1, 2010
reesetee commented on the word benjamins
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."
June 1, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word benjamins
Excellent!
Brackets around "upper benjamin," please. :-)
June 1, 2010
reesetee commented on the word benjamins
As you wish. :-)
June 1, 2010