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.
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