“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.
I think it means anger rather than insanity.
I 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.)
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