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double sawbuck

A $20 bill. A sawbuck is a $10 bill.
You got that double sawbuck you owed me?
double sawbuck by Fecalator December 8, 2004
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Originally slang for a sawhorse, fashioned iin the 18th century by lashing together two pieces of wood into an "X" shape. With an X-shaped support at each of two ends, the contraption served to hold wood for cutting.

With the advent of the U.S. 10 dollar bill, which bears the Roman numeral X, "sawbuck" became slang for the bill, as people associated the shape with the sawhorse. The slang term "buck" originated in the mid-19th century in reference to the dollar.

In the mid-1900s "sawbuck" became street slang, apparently originating in Chicago, for a 10-dollar bag of marijuana. Since 1985 or so, the term has referred to a 10-dollar "bag" (actual bag or any kind of package) of any street drug (heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana, etc.).

Occasionally, addicts use the term sawbuck to refer to 10 dollars, particularly when they intend to use the money to purchase drugs (e.g., "Borrow me a sawbuck so i can get my sick off").

"Sawbuck" is also the name of a Chicago-based media production company that focuses on documentary films on the street-level drug world.
"Gimme a sawbuck blow" (blow means heroin in Chicago's street level drug market).

"Let me borrow a sawbuck so I can get my sick off."
sawbuck by Earl Dukuo August 5, 2009
A ten-dollar bill.
Slap me a sawbuck and I'll get us some beers, fella.
sawbuck by Mike January 19, 2003
1. a ten dollar bill.
2. Ten dollars worth of weed a.k.a. a dime bag
1.let me get that sawbuck you owe me.
2. I served him a sawbuck, the nigga was thirsty.
sawbuck by msy December 1, 2004
A word meaning $10. Comes from Chi-Town
"Hey bob i need to borrow a sawbuck"
sawbuck by Notes December 28, 2005
a 10$ bill (alludes to the shape of Roman numerals)
I thought I had a sawbuck, but I must have left it at home.
sawbuck by The Return of Light Joker February 18, 2011
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