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☆ slush fund

  1. Historical a fund established aboard ship from the sale of refuse fat, etc. and used to buy small luxuries
  2. money used for bribery, political pressure, or other corrupt purposes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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