slang. Orig. U.S. Also -ics, -ix; spondoolic(k)s, -ix. [Of fanciful formation.] Money, cash.
1857. in R. H. Thornton, Amer. Gloss. (1912). He lost … All the brass and all the needful, All the spondulix and buttons. Ibid. (1863), Those ordering job work should come down with the spondulicks as soon as the work is done.
1896. J. H. Bloomfield, Cuban Exped., 20. As long as the Cubans can raise the spondulix, they’ll get plenty of people to fit out expeditions for them.
1899. T. M. Ellis, Three Cat’s-Eye Rings, 32. Oh, I shall pull in the spondulicks,… I tell you.
