subs. (old).—The paps. Fr., les appas. Once in literary use, but now impossible except as slang. FLASHING HER CHARMS = showing her paps.

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  2.  (American).—A generic term for money. For synonyms, see ACTUAL and GILT.

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  1875.  American English, in Chambers’s Journal, 25 Sept., p. 610. Money has forty or fifty different names; such singular terms as … shadscales, and CHARMS, figuring in the list.

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