Talk:smackers

RFD discussion: June 2023–October 2024

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smackers

Rfd-sense: "(humorous slang) Money."

It's just the plural of smacker ("dollar"). Money is uncountable in this sense; smackers is not. DCDuring (talk) 22:09, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

I almost agree with that but we should rewrite the definition of smacker along the lines of the one already in Collins dictionary, namely 'a pound or a dollar' (or 'a dollar or a pound' if you like) as it can certainly refer to pounds. I remember a parody song on the radio about the divorce between Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit where the lyrics parodied the Oasis song 'Don't Look Back in Anger' - it went:- "Oh Patsy can wait, she wants it all on a plate and there's just no way (can't remember the next line). She wants 5 million smackers, I heard her say". Of course she did then go on to win 5 mil in the divorce settlement, I can't find that online but I'm sure I could dig up some cites with this meaning. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 22:55, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Delete. I've found and added some cites where 'smackers' and 'smackeroonies' is used to mean pounds to Citations:smacker and Citations:smackeroonies but this word and all its variants doesn't mean money in an uncountable sense. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 14:30, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Rfd-sense No, I often hear and call money "smackers". — This unsigned comment was added by 81.111.205.155 (talk) at 13:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC).

Moved from a new section. J3133 (talk) 14:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Keep. It's used for dollars too, not just pounds, and probably could be used for any other unit of currency being casually discussed in English—if we're not accustomed to hearing about lira or rubles being called "smackers", it's probably because most English-language sources will be from countries that use dollars or pounds, or go out of their way to use the actual name of the currency instead, as a means of exoticizing the locale. But that doesn't mean that it couldn't be used. Alternatively, split the definition of smacker that attempts to cover both lips and money, and then you could delete the plural, since it links back to the singular. Really that definition should be split anyway. Just because both uses are slang doesn't mean that they're the same definition! P Aculeius (talk) 05:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Delete both plural slang senses ("money", "lips") at smackers and separate the corresponding senses at smacker (+ add {{lb|en|chiefly|in the plural}}). We tend to lemmatize similar mostly-plural slang terms at the singular form (cf. Thesaurus:breasts). Einstein2 (talk) 22:04, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I've just made a few edits at smacker and smackers to reflect the consensus seemingly reached in this convo - shall we now delete the redundant senses at smackers and call this 'RFD-deleted/resolved'? We might want to play around with smackeroo/smackaroo/smackeroony/smackeroonie/smackeroonies a bit too, so they're consistently formatted and defined and linked to each other. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 06:53, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

• RFD failed. I've made a few adjustments to various related entries and deleted the 'money' and 'lips' meaning in preference of the singular 'lip' and 'unit of currency'. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 05:21, 22 October 2024 (UTC)