"simoleon" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Most likely a late-19th-century blend of simon (“dollar”), from simon (“sixpence coin”) (17th-century British slang, perhaps related to simony?), and Napoleon (“French gold coin worth 20 francs, bearing the image of Napoleon III”). Perhaps from New Orleans.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "That'll cost you five simoleons.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 2:",
          "text": "\"T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The International Bookbinder - Volume 10, page 240:",
          "text": "Another brother working in an Alabama city has not sent a cold simolean or any long green since January; he has ignored several letters, but at last a registered letter found him O.K. and working.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Delta Chi Quarterly, volume 10, page 286:",
          "text": "We gladly did so with the result that we got a menu worth a dollar and a half or two dollars for a single simolean. Can you beat that?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:",
          "text": "His Veteran's insurance came to ten thousand simoleons, rather more than he could bring on the hoof.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Newsweek, volume 101, page 178:",
          "text": "Abetted by market-wise agents and paperback publishers with an eye for the speedy simolean, these double-gaited gonzos are perpetrating a plague of best-selling takeoffs of innocent newspapers, defenseless magazines, helpless self-help books - even the Good Book itself.",
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        "A dollar."
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        "(US, slang) A dollar."
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          "text": "That'll cost you five simoleons.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 2:",
          "text": "\"T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The International Bookbinder - Volume 10, page 240:",
          "text": "Another brother working in an Alabama city has not sent a cold simolean or any long green since January; he has ignored several letters, but at last a registered letter found him O.K. and working.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Delta Chi Quarterly, volume 10, page 286:",
          "text": "We gladly did so with the result that we got a menu worth a dollar and a half or two dollars for a single simolean. Can you beat that?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:",
          "text": "His Veteran's insurance came to ten thousand simoleons, rather more than he could bring on the hoof.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Newsweek, volume 101, page 178:",
          "text": "Abetted by market-wise agents and paperback publishers with an eye for the speedy simolean, these double-gaited gonzos are perpetrating a plague of best-selling takeoffs of innocent newspapers, defenseless magazines, helpless self-help books - even the Good Book itself.",
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        "A dollar."
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        "(US, slang) A dollar."
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