subs. (American).—Abundance; ‘lashin’s an’ lavin’s.’
1876. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, vii. 75. I’m going to be a clown in a circus when I grow up…. They get SLATHERS of money—most a dollar a day.
1888. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), American Authors and British Pirates, in New Princeton Review, Jan., 50. Mr. Newton can repeat SLATHERS and SLATHERS of another man’s literature without ever missing a trick.
