street money n.— «Street money is the name for cash given to party committeemen and women who hand out literature and drum up the vote on primary and election days. It comes from the candidates and is dispensed to the party’s 69 ward...
salt n.— «With that, Madrid became what’s called “a salt”: a union employee who infiltrates nonunion work sites. His work is part of a larger effort by New Orleans trade unions to combat what they call an underground cash-only...
flight to cash n.— «With a full-scale banking crisis now in play, there followed the usual symptoms of such events—bank closures and insolvencies, a flight to “cash,” the creation of a “secondary market” in frozen...
commissary berry n.— «If she were in the prison’s general population, she would surely sprout “commissary berries”—inmates who glom on to anyone with a little cash who could buy them a $1.50 cheeseburger or an 87-cent Milky...
Crispie n.— «They have bought so much property in England, Spain and in countries in Eastern Europe that they have been dubbed Crispies—short for cash-rich Irish seeking properties in Europe.» —“An Irish Taste for Real Estate in...
chase the bloom v. phr.— «For the most part, colony collapse disorder has been limited to large operations that truck their hives cross country to “chase the bloom,” as it’s known. That is, vast mobile operations that make...