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English
Etymology
Apocopic form of scrilla (“money”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scrill (uncountable)
- (slang, Bay Area, African-American Vernacular, Chicano) Money.
- Synonyms: scrilla; see also Thesaurus:money
I have to work overtime to make the scrill I need to buy that car.
2002 July 23, “500 Degreez”, in 500 Degreez, performed by Lil Wayne:I'm more real than, I got more scrill than / Got more skill than them there / I'm a cash money millionaire
2006, Renay Jackson, Crack City, Berkeley, C.A.: Frog, Ltd., →ISBN, page 102:Andre and JoMo sat counting scrill at the kitchen table.
2012, Bruce Wagner, Dead Stars: An Entertainment, New York, N.Y.: Blue Rider Press, →ISBN, page 470:[…] you should just MOVE BACK TO RIKKI'S, he told me his parents have been asking you to do that, well that's EXACTLY what you're gunna have to frickin do if you don't come up with no fuckin SKRILL.
References
- “scrill”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.