cashola
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /kæˈʃoʊlə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kæˈʃəʊlə/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊlə
Noun
[edit]cashola (uncountable)
- (slang) cash; money.
- 2004, Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, The second assistant: a tale from the bottom of the Hollywood ladder, page 201:
- But with a large Irish family to keep in potatoes and a livery of bodyguards that would have made Joseph Stalin look paranoid, he needed the cashola.
- 2019 October 13, Rich Blomquist, “Jenny Unfiltered” (6:22 from the start), in Bless the Harts[1], season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig):
- “If we were to give that money to charity, they'd probably just turn around and give it right back to us.” “That's true. We would just be eliminating the middleman.” “And we could really fix things up around here.” “And all this cashola sure would look good in Violet's art school fund.”