de-posit
Refers to da sour-faced "significant reducing of da total-amount figure" action performed by da irritated bank-teller who processes da night/weekend deposits, after she actually **counts** da cash or totals up da checks dat you placed in da deposit-envelope and inserted into da night-depository, only to discover dat da supposedly-large amount dat you'd claimed to have deposited when you'd filled in da "deposit amount" line on da envelope was grossly "inflated" --- i.e., you claimed to have deposited a sizeable amount, when in reality you had merely left a few bucks in the envelope! Well, serves you right --- I mean, you didn't truly believe dat da teller wasn't gonna actually COUNT da cash or checks in da envelope to CONFIRM dat you really had deposited as much as you'd claimed you did, didja??? I mean, zheee-yeesh... if bank-tellers always just unquestioningly trusted da stated amounts of people's deposits, then many folks would just gleefully scribble in some astronomical amount whenever they made a "non-face-to-face" deposit (i.e., not making da deposit in person, where da teller would count it right there in front of you), and then da banks would be obliged to credit da depositers with a lot of unearned income!
I'm an honest guy, and so I've never tried to actually deceive a bank into crediting me for more money than I'd actually deposited; the farthest I've ever gone is to merely play a little joke on the teller by inserting a phony million-dollar bill in among the fives and tens in the deposit envelope before deadpanningly handing it to the teller, and then seeing the teller's surprised/amused reaction when she sees the obviously-fake "bar-M" bill. The teller then performs a quick "de-posit" to accurately record the much-more-paltry sum that I'm actually submitting, and then smugly hands me back the gag-bill along with my deposit-receipt.
