texas roll
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.51 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I was really showy with my money. Willie taught me the trick of carrying a lot of change and jingling it so that people'd think I was rich. And I carried a Texas roll – a wad of bills, mostly ones and fives with a few big bills on the outside and play money on the inside to make it fatter."
- "And to show off, he used to carry a Texas roll, a huge roll of money made up of one-dollar and five-dollar bills with large denominations on the outside and phoney money inside to increase its size."
- "Another black fellow arrived and, Davis recalled, he had “a big roll of money, a Texas roll, looked like a lot of money. The guy says, 'Hey, man, did you ever play three–card monte?' I'm crazy. I'm young.”"