Pay
Pay verb - To give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received.
Stiffs
Both words in one sentence
- Johnson stiffs them on their pay and dead enemies have no money, PCs can at least loot and fence the enemies' equipment.
Source: Plunder -
His owners are, in their own description, "a couple of working stiffs" who put up $10,000 to buy a modestly pedigreed mare and pay a stud fee in the hopes of getting a decent horse; by pedigree alone, he shouldn't even have been in the Kentucky Derby.
Source: Useful Notes / Horse Racing
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