moolah

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moolah or moola (MOO-la) - n., (slang) money.


Started as early 20th century American slang, with sources pegging it from the 1900s, 1920s, or c.1940, depending apparently on their depth of examples, spreading to the UK during WWII. No one seems to have any idea, however, as to the source.

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