CHEQUE
ADJECTIVES
1927 — COLD of a cheque: worthless, fraudulent → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1823 — STIFF a forged cheque → US criminals’ sl.
1890 — STUMER → STUMOR a worthless cheque → sl.
1910 — BAD PAPER a cheque for which there are no funds in the bank → Amer. sl.
1920 — KITE-FLYING the juggling of cheques between accounts so as to create a sham balance of funds on which to draw → sl.
1920 — P.L. a forged personal cheque → forgers’ sl.
1927 — KITE a blank, dud, or forged cheque → sl.
1927 — PAPER-HANGING passing bad cheques → US criminals’ sl.
1929 — BUTTERFLY a worthless cheque which ‘flutters away’ → Amer. criminals’ sl.
1930 — FALSE FLAP a bad cheque → Aust. sl.
1940 — I’M A WRECK a cheque → rhyming sl.
1940 — NERVOUS WRECK a cheque → rhyming sl.
1940 — TOTAL WRECK a cheque → rhyming sl.
1951 — BOOMERANG (CHEQUE) a ‘bouncing’ cheque which is not honoured, and is ‘returned to drawer’ → Aust. sl.
1955 — FLAP a cheque → Aust. prison & criminals’ sl.
1960 — DUCHESS (OF TECK) a cheque → UK rhyming sl.
1960 — DUKE (OF TECK) a cheque → UK rhyming sl.
1972 — HOT CHEQUE a forged cheque or one intentionally drawn with insufficient funds to cover payment → US sl.
1972 — PAPER a forged or useless cheque or other financial instrument → US sl.
1981 — GREGORY PECK a cheque → rhyming sl.
1992 — PAIN (IN THE NECK) a cheque → UK rhyming sl.
1998 — CHICKEN’S NECK a cheque → UK rhyming sl.
2002 — DUCK’S NECK a cheque → Aust. rhyming sl.
2006 — BUM CHECK a bad cheque; a forged cheque → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1904 — PAPER-LAYER a person who habitually passes bad cheques → US criminals’ sl.
1914 — PAPER-HANGER a person who passes forged or fraudulent cheques → sl., orig. US
1920 — BUTTERFLY MAN a person who passes worthless cheques → US sl.
1999 — KITE FLYER a person who passes discredited cheques → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1839 — KITE to write a cheque before one has sufficient money in one’s bank to cover it → colloq.
1920 — CALL OUT to use a stolen cheque → US criminals’ sl.
1920 — CRACK to cash a cheque → US criminals’ sl.
1920 — SAUSAGE A GOOSE’S to cash a cheque → sl.
1920 — SAUSAGE to cash a cheque → rhyming sl. based on ‘sausage and mash’
1925 — PAPER to defraud someone by passing a forged cheque → sl.
1940 — RAISE to forge cheques → UK criminals’ sl.
1960 — WRITE to pass dud cheques → sl.
2006 — FLY KITES to distribute or pass bad cheques → US criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
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