Wallet definition
It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.
He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.
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Origin of wallet
- Middle English walet knapsack possibly from Old North French walet roll, knapsack wel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English walet (“wallet, bag, knapsack"). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet "bag, knapsack", from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll"). More at walk, well, wallow.
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