Meaning of small, unmarked bills | Babel Free

Definitions

Paper currency which consists of small-denomination banknotes that have not been inscribed with hidden markings which would help authorities identify and trace them.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“Claude Harmon, the former Masters champion, immediately withdrew from the tournament with the booming declaration, "I wouldn't play that course again if they gave me $5,000 in small unmarked bills."”

“THE MOVIE "Speed". . . . WHAT HE WANTS $3.7 million in small, unmarked bills. OR ELSE A bomb on the bus will be detonated.”

“"[I]f the commander wants all the dirt I've already uncovered, and all the dirt I'm going to uncover about him to stay neatly under the rug, then he's going to have to pay. Two hundred and fifty thousand in small, unmarked bills."”

“Vice City is . . . a steaming Cuban sandwich of sultry Latin sirens, drug deals gone bad and seedy mobsters with big metal briefcases full of small unmarked bills.”

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