Cash App
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editNoun
editCash App (plural Cash Apps) (informal)
- An account on the mobile payment service Cash App.
- 2019 July–August, Lina Abascal, “Janice Griffith”, in Adam Penn, editor, Playboy Philippines, number 93, Playboy International Publishing, page 103, column 2:
- “Right now, models want to accept money and people want to give us money, but there’s no way to make that happen,” she [Griffith] says. “My Cash App was shut down, and for what reason?” The answer, of course, is that sex workers are not a protected group within the United States, allowing payment processors to discriminate against them and the services they provide.
- 2020 March, Rebekah Weatherspoon, chapter 10, in A Cowboy to Remember (Cowboys of California; 1), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
- “Fifty dollars in my Cash App and not a penny less.” / “Done.”
- 2021, Janlisa Parris, “Psycho Does What Psycho Does”, in Times in My Mind, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 48:
- This same friend that bought his glasses sent him $100 to my Cash App, and of course I had to ride down to the Northside from Ballwin, Missouri (25 minutes away). I handed him the money […]
- 2022, Khali Raymond, “This dick ain’t free: still coming around???”, in The Gold Mind, 2nd edition, savage writer publishing, →ISBN:
- This dick ain’t free / If you wanna sit on it, that’ll be a couple hundred plus taxes / Hey, I know you could afford it / Both your parents are doctors / I’ll gladly take a pound of OG to compensate / if nothing is sent to my Cash App
- 2022, Simone Kelly, “Chapter 6 - Journey”, in #1544, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, LLC, →ISBN:
- Well, I didn’t see my monthly deposit in my Cash App. I thought we had an agreement on how this was gonna go?
- 2023, Greggor Mattson, “#SaveTheGayBars from Another Pandemic: Troupe429 ■ Norwalk, Connecticut”, in Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places, Stanford, Calif.: Redwood Press, →ISBN:
- Where many bars published their staff’s Venmos and Cash Apps so that patrons could show some financial appreciation while they were out of work, Troupe429 went further. […] Each “Troupetender” card featured a cute headshot, a QR code linked to the employee’s online cash account, and a recipe for a cocktail.
- 2023 January 22, anonymous author, Twitter[1] (@fesshole), archived from the original on 2023-01-22; compiled by Rob Manuel in “How to Save Money”, in The New Fesstament: The Very Best of Fesshole, London: Radar, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, Hachette UK, 2023, →ISBN, section “Second Commandment – Thou Shalt Use These Shonky Tips”:
- I set up a fake Tinder profile with an Insta model’s photos with a bio asking for £10 to my Cash App to show you’re actually serious.
- A money transfer made using the mobile payment service Cash App.
- 2020 January 8, K.D. Caldwell, “Run Me My Money”, in When Swiping Right Went Wrong: How I Almost Lost Everything in the Blink of an Eye, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 52:
- I added up all the months I helped him with his rent and all the random Cash Apps for $50 here and there.
- 2022 September, Hazel Ro, I Didn’t Think You Existed 2: A Fool in Love[2], Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, LLC, →ISBN:
- I’d hung up with Tiff in just the nick of time because Malaysia had made her way back outside and was heading my direction. Lucky for me, right as she approached the car, I got an alert that I’d received a Cash App for three hundred bucks.
- 2023, Jessica Norwood, quoting Andrew Wilkes, “Collective Action versus Go It Alone”, in Believe-in-You Money: What Would It Look Like if the Economy Loved Black People?, Oakland, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 99:
- And if we place capital, place tithes and offerings, checks, coins, Cash Apps right where racial justice is, where undoing White supremacy is, then it shifts the lens that we bring to the world we inhabit.
Verb
editCash App (third-person singular simple present Cash Apps, present participle Cash Apping, simple past and past participle Cash Apped)
- (informal, ditransitive) To transfer money to someone using the mobile payment service Cash App.
- 2021, Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems, Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, Leiden: Brill | Sense, →ISBN, page 147:
- Bidding’s at $3,000. Anybody else? Going once, going twice, last call? Okay, sold! #369, Cash App me and I’ll have your purchase on its way no later than midnight today.
- 2023, Baby Cash Houston, chapter 16, in Bounce Back, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
- Wanda was sitting there texting Dre, and she knew she was either going to be late for the party or she wasn’t going to make it ’cause Dre told her to be there when he got there and he had just Cash Apped her $500, so Wanda wasn’t moving until he left.