fish-skin

English

Noun

fish-skin (countable and uncountable, plural fish-skins)

  1. Alternative form of fish skin.
  2. (US, slang, dated, uncommon, countable) A dollar bill.
    • 1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, page 21:
      I learned quickly that a dollar bill was a fish-skin.
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