Crossword clues for sawbuck
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ten-dollar bill," American English slang, 1850, from resemblance of X (Roman numeral 10) to the ends of a sawhorse. Sawbuck in the sense of "sawhorse" is attested only from 1862 but presumably is older (see saw (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse 2 (context US slang English) a ten-dollar bill
WordNet
Wikipedia
Sawbuck may refer to a device and is a slang term for a U.S. currency bill.
Sawbuck.com is an online real estate brokerage headquartered in Washington, D.C. Sawbuck.com is a real estate information site that provides property listing data, recent sales data, and geography-based market statistics.
Usage examples of "sawbuck".
Well, Lefty looks at my sawbuck and nods his head, for Lefty is not such a guy as will refuse any bet, even though it is as modest as mine, and right away Goldie yells money-money-money, so there I am with twenty-two dollars.
But when I return to the room after winning a sawbuck in two passes in the game, I am horrified to find that the parrot is absent.
Sorrowful for a sawbuck, and by the time Sorrowful gets through explaining how things are with him, Regret feels so sorry for him that he goes out and puts the bite on somebody else for the saw and gives it to Sorrowful, although it is well known to one and all that Sorrowful has plenty of potatoes hid away somewhere.
I will sell you a choice ducket for only a sawbuck, which is ten dollars in your language, and you are getting such a bargain only because the game is about to begin, and the market is going down.
His own people could not buy from Onofre at those prices: they were used to paying five dollars, at the most a sawbuck, for a pickup load of pifion.
Detective Bruno Sancino slipped the pizza delivery boy a double sawbuck, told him to keep the change and then gave the seventh floor hallway a quick look-see before closing the door and bolting it shut.
He pocketed the sawbuck I slipped him with the discreet manner that made him so popular with the other hotel patrons.
A finiff would have been at the market, and a sawbuck would have been lavish.
Joe had to make up a sawbuck from his miserably tiny pile or get out of the game.
Usually when I came in the next morning, there were a few empties on the bar and a sawbuck on the register, and in return Milt drank free whenever I was there.
I saw that Sandy had seated herself at one of the long sawbuck tables.
Daniel, Orney, Kikin, and Threader were in the hold, where Orney had improvised a bench by throwing a plank between two clapped-out sawbucks.
It helped that he had heard of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin and that I slipped him a double sawbuck.
To see a nekkid broad, that's why-and a chance to be paid a double sawbuck for lookin'-when maybe they got one just as good or better at home, nekkid anytime they like.
There's a double sawbuck in it for anybody who can give me some interesting lowdown on this Marcella Harris dame who got croaked last weekend.