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    Originally slang for a sawhorse, fashioned iin the 18th century by lashing together two pieces of wood into an X shape. With an X-shaped support at each of two ends, the contraption served to hold wood for cutting.
    With the advent of the U.S. 10 dollar bill, which bears the Roman numeral X, sawbuck became slang for the bill, as people associated the shape with the sawhorse. The slang term buck originated in the mid-19th century in reference to the dollar.
    In the mid-1900s sawbuck became street slang, apparently originating in Chicago, for a 10-dollar bag of marijuana. Since 1985 or so, the term has referred to a 10-dollar bag (actual bag or any kind of package) of any street drug (heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana, etc.).
    Occasionally, addicts use the term sawbuck to refer to 10 dollars, particularly when they intend to use the money to purchase drugs (e.g., Borrow me a sawbuck so i can get my sick off).
    Sawbuck is also the name of a Chicago-based media production company that focuses on documentary films on the street-level drug world.

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      A word meaning . Comes from Chi-Town

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        a ten dollar bill.
        Ten dollars worth of weed a.k.a. a dime bag

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          a 10$ bill (alludes to the shape of Roman numerals)

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            A noun. A word referring to either a the monetary value of ten dollars, or 10 dollars worth of weed (depending on the quality of weed). Was widely introduced into common slang originally in Chicago in the late 1970’s early 1980’s.

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              The Sawbuck is a very agressive sexual maneuver in which a man forces a woman on all fours and proceeds to saddle her up like a Stallion. He then mounts her and dicks her down while smothering her face with a bill, hence the word Sawbuck. It has been described by some as an art form the art of sawbucking.

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