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smackeroonies en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From smackers (“money”) + -oon (“coin, amount”) + -y (“forming diminutives”) but typically only used in the plural. See also smackeroo & ackers.

Meanings

1. (humorous, plural, plural-normally, slang) Synonym of smackers: Units of currency, or kisses.
   • ...the kind of man who certainly couldn't think much of you if, my goodness, you wouldn't spring ten thousand smackeroonies for a casket. 1968, Norman Mailer, Miami and the siege of Chicago:
   • It's a comforting fallacy, especially when, as in the case of Iceman, you're about to reach deep into your pocket for a hundred smackeroonies. 2000, Gordon Rogoff, Vanishing acts: theater since the sixties:
   • ...smackeroonies will just keep rolling in for him. This is a man who will make more in a night than Michael Jordan gets paid in a year. 2002, Daniel O'Connor, George Plimpton, Iron Mike: A Mike Tyson Reader:
   • 5FU is cheap, it's abundant, it comes out of the lab quicker than a jackrabbit and it has just earned you 120 smackeroonies at 6-1. 2007, Lucinda Jarrett, Creative Engagement in Palliative Care:
   • "Fifty thousand smackeroonies! I could be out of debt!" She jumped out of bed and did a little jig. 2005, Louise de Teliga, Fashion Slaves:

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Synonyms

smackers