cash money

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

cash money (uncountable)

1. (slang, emphatic) Cash, or a thing easily converted to cash, as opposed to credit.
   • 2008 July 9, Jacqueline Mitchell, “America's Most Stolen Vehicles”, in Forbes magazine,

     So don't think for a moment that your old but tired vehicle matters only to you. Your clunker is cash money to professional thieves.

Adjective

cash money (comparative more cash money, superlative most cash money)

1. (slang, humorous) Highly desirable; beneficent or conveying high status.
   • 2019 February, Robb Murray, “Ink, grapplers and pioneers”, in Mankato Magazine, volume 14, number 2, page 6:

     Two countries are beating us in the tattoo game. Not by much, but they’re beating us. Italy leads the world at 48 percent. Sweden comes in at No. 2 with 47 percent. And the U.S., for purposes of this discussion, picks up the bronze medal. Not very cash money of you, U.S. You’re slippin’.

   • 2021, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Honi Soit, week 9, semester 1, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of Sydney, page 3, column 2:

     That’s not very cash money of you / Dear Editors, / What the fuck is up with SSAF allocation?

   • 2021 May, Kilgore High School Mirror, volume 21, number 4, Kilgore, Tex.: Kilgore High School:

     This year has been very cash money thank you everyone and goodbye!

   • 2021 May 18, Thomas Smith, “Ending It”, in The Stinger, Kingfisher, Okla.: Kingfisher High School, page 6:

     I think we just have to look at the bright side of things, avoid all the overly exaggerated bad stuff, and please, try not to destroy society before we go into this next school year. That wouldn't be very cash money of you.

   • 2022, Okina Baba, translated by Jenny McKeon, So I’m a Spider, So What?‎^[1], volume 15, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, →ISBN:

     Leave it to D to casually build in skills that could defeat a god. That wasn’t very cash money of her. What the hell was she thinking? Anyway, that method is way too advanced for me. Yet D is out there letting people who aren’t even gods use it. That wasn’t very cash money of her. Seriously, what the hell was she thinking?

   • 2022 April 5, Lady FlatHatDown [pseudonym], “Corsets, Eye-Contact, Tea, and Student Assembly”, in The Fat Head, Williamsburg, Va.: College of William & Mary, page 3, column 2:

     Believing the J and J team dirtied their pure status, Connor Big Lebowski challenged the campaign in a duel of words saying quote “That wasn’t very cash money of you.”

   • 2022 October 27, Alexandra Holyk, “Students no longer sad, they are now horny”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Metropolitan University, page 7, column 3:

     A self-described “alpha dawg D-A-W-G not D-O-G, bro,” Nafoque thought the lockdowns weren’t very “cash money” of the government, especially since they meant no more partying and no more George Michael.

   • 2022 November 10, Monika Sweeney, “Not loving overalls? I'm totally over all of it!”, in The Miscellany News, volume 158, number 9, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Vassar College, page 13, column 2:

     [Disclaimer: Overalls are not in accordance with rugby rules, so I don’t recommend actually wearing them to a school-sanctioned athletics game, but if you do, don't sue me when you tear a ligament because I am not a doctor, and I am a college student with debt, so it wouldn’t be very cash money for either of us.]

   • 2023, David M. Goodman, Matthew Clemente, editors, The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology‎^[2], New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN:

     These classic monsters are most often depicted as friends who want to help set the viewer onto a better path. An example of this is a meme of Godzilla wearing sunglasses and declaring, “That wasn’t very cash money of you” (in this case, “cash money” is slang for beneficent behavior).

   • 2023 October 27, Aviva V. Maxon, Belen Yudess, “Satire: Answers to Questions You Didn’t Ask”, in The Scripps Voice, volume XXXII, number 2, Claremont, Calif.: Scripps College, page 8, column 4:

     Why does a ghost scare you? Is the ghost afraid of you? Honestly the ghost has much more to be upset by. You walked into their home and then screamed as if they weren’t there. That’s not very cash money of you.

Usage notes

Usually used in the phrase not very cash money of (someone).

Further reading

• “That Wasn't Very Cash Money of You”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007