Word: sawbuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough as he is Arcaro has a few soft spots. Any tout or hustler around the track can usually work Eddie for "a double sawbuck." His mother telephoned him one day to say that she had lost her apartment and had no place to live. He hurried to Cincinnati, and bought her a $16,000 house...
Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...