| 词汇 | dead presidents |
| 词源 | dead presidents. Slang for paper money of any denomina- tion, as all the presidents pictured on U.S. currency are dead because U.S. law forbids any living person’s likeness on curren- cy. The term was first recorded in New York’s Harlem in 1944 and now is used throughout the country. |
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