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Vrb phrs. Having adequate cash on one's person. The folding refers to monetary notes.
a type of warhead attached to a 2.75-inch, spin-stabilized, folding-fin, aerial rocket. Called flechettes, this round was used against personnel targets. It was usually launched from helicopter gunships. The number of nails in a round escapes me, but it is around several hundred.
Folding money
money in banknotes, 'folding' money - orginally US slang according to Cassells, from the 1900s, also used in the UK, logically arising because of the leaf allusion, and green was a common colour of dollar notes and pound notes (thanks R Maguire, who remembers the slang from Glasgow in 1970s).
n pop-up camper. A sort of folding-up caravan. It starts off as an average-sized trailer and then unfolds into a sort of crappy shed when you reach a campsite.
Folding stuff is slang for money.
Cabbage, lettuce, kale, folding green, long green.
color of money
Money, cash, folding bank notes.
folding/folding stuff/folding money/folding green
banknotes, especially to differentiate or emphasise an amount of money as would be impractical to carry or pay in coins, typically for a night out or to settle a bill. Folding, folding stuff and folding money are all popular slang in London. Folding green is more American than UK slang. Cassells says these were first recorded in the 1930s, and suggests they all originated in the US, which might be true given that banknotes arguably entered very wide use earlier in the US than in the UK. (Thanks P Jones, June 2008)
Holding folding is British slang for to be in possession of money.
Noun. Money, in particular higher denomination notes. See also 'holding the folding'.
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A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.
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A folding or fold; a plait.
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A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.
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A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.
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The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
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Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
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The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
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To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
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A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
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Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.
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One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
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The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.
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The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
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A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church.
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To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
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One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.
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