Yankee dime
n.— «Yankee Dime This is Texas slang, apparently (I read it in the Lone Star Iconoclast!) for an insincere kiss. President Bush sure knows how to spend those.» —“Yankee Dime” by Merle Kessler DBMT (San Francisco, California) Sept. 29, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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