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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smacker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He planted a big, wet smacker on Jill's cheek.
▪ It cost me fifty smackers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eleven-year-old Macaulay gets his first on-screen smacker from child co-star Anna Chlumsky.
▪ It would bring a windfall of around 300,000 smackers to the Manor.
▪ One thousand smackers would come in very handy at the moment.
▪ Snogging tackle for stonking wet smackers, warm and reassuring like a comfy settee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smacker

"money," c.1918, American English slang, perhaps from smack (v.1) on notion of something "smacked" into the palm of the hand. Extended form smackeroo is attested from 1939.

Wiktionary
smacker

n. 1 One who smacks or spanks. 2 One who makes a smacking noise, especially while eating. 3 (context slang English) kiss 4 (context plural only English) lips 5 (context colloquial English) a dollar 6 (context British colloquial usually plural English) a pound (money)

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WordNet
smacker

  1. n. a loud kiss

  2. a very powerful blow with the fist

Usage examples of "smacker".

Next day Daisy cashed the Micro check for ten hundred aluminum-bronze pseudo-silver smackers, which she hid in a broken radionic coffee urn.

Run by Ward McKey, a fughead if there ever was one, and based in the Laguna Sector of Greater Los Angeles in the state of SoCal, BotPets grosses just shy of a billion smackers per year.

Another tune, sung by a tall thin man with a deep bass voice, told of the trials of a man bent on catching an ancient granddaddy smacker fish which had once demolished his small fishing boat with a negligent flick of its massive tail.

I'm keeping five hundred smackers coming into the cash register every week as long as Halloran lives, or as long as I can give him a good show.

Seems that the little guy with the nose glasses cabled Father that I was engaged to you, and Father was so tickled that he's deposited a hundred and fifty thousand smackers to my account.