Michigan bankroll

English

Noun

Michigan bankroll (plural Michigan bankrolls)

1. (slang) One or several high-denomination banknotes wrapped around a larger number of smaller ones, intended to look like more money than it actually is.

   Synonyms: California bankroll, Texas bankroll, Texas roll

   • 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:

     […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver. A grand will make a bulge so big you can't get it in your pocket."
     "That's okay. I've carried Michigan bankrolls before."

   • 2009, Frank E. Hagan, Crime Types and Criminals, page 173:

     She showed them some loose twenties (the rest of the roll of money actually consists of a “Michigan bankroll” of phony money), and the three women discussed the situation for a while.