knot
n.— «I’m tired of faking knots with a stack of ones/Having a lack of funds and resorting back to guns.» —“If I Had” by Eminem, Dr. Dre Slim Shady Feb. 23, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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