“You’re not bringing mad money?”
“I have my phone.”
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[Mad money: “Money carried by a girl or woman with which to pay her own way home if she leaves her escort, usu. because of his sexual advances.” Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, A Dictionary of American Slang, 1975.]
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Domestic comedy
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Strange. I always thought of mad money as spare cash used for non-essential and/or self-indulgent purposes. I don't like this implication of this other definition: that a woman is considered to be mad or out of her mind if she resists sexual advances and has to find her own way home.
ReplyDeleteI think it means anger rather than insanity.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to see the splurge meaning in the DAS, as I never knew mad money to be anything but date-related. (I know it only as old-time slang, not as something from life experience.)