subs. (common).—In pl. = money: generic: see RHINO.
1886. Fun, 21 July, 29. Now that Henry Ward Beecher is over here, intent on making SHEKELS, the following anecdote concerning him is worth reviving.
1886–96. MARSHALL, Pomes [1897], 17. He’d a pedigree long, land and SHEKELS galore.
1889. Referee, 6 Jan. H. is scooping in the SHEKELS, but you mustn’t infer from this that he is a “She”-nie.
1890. New York Herald, 16 April, 6. Mr. Philips’s … novels bring him in as many SHEKELS as Ouida’s.
1892. A. C. GUNTER, Miss Dividends, x. Plently of SHEKELS to hire legal talent and pack juries.
1897. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 15 Sept. I do a great deal in the matrimonial line. One individual, more full of love than SHEKELS, was in here just as the clock was striking nine one Saturday.
