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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    The five-cent coin ($0.05 or 5¢) is commonly called a nickel due to being made of 25% nickel since 1866. Nickels minted between 1942 and 1945 are nicknamed 'war nickels' owing to their different metal content, removing the nickel for a mixture of silver, copper and manganese. The dime coin ($0.10 or 10¢) is worth ten cents.

  3. Cent (currency) - Wikipedia

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    A United States one-cent coin, also known as a penny. The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals a hundredth (1 ⁄ 100) of the basic monetary unit. The word derives from the Latin centum, 'hundred'. The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter c.

  4. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Fifty-cents; 50 cents i.e. $.50 [211] half cut Happily intoxicated [21] half seas over Alternate names for intoxicated; see § drunk [212] [b] half under Alternate names for intoxicated; see § drunk [213] [b] handcuff Engagement ring or wedding band [206] happy-dust cocaine [82] hard Tough; see also bimbo hard-boiled Bruno [20] hard-boiled ...

  5. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    The National Credit Union Administration tells consumers to use words for dollars and fractions out of 100 for cents. For example, if your check is for $19.99, you would write it out as ...

  6. Wordle - Wikipedia

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    Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position.

  7. Want to cut government waste? Start with the penny ... - AOL

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    “The government is losing money making money, paying more than three cents to produce a penny and more than 11 cents for a nickel,” she wrote, citing the U.S. Mint’s annual performance plan.

  8. Penny (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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    The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).

  9. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    nickel (informal American, from the value of the five-cent US nickel, but applied in non-monetary references) quintic the degree of a polynomial is 5; quint (short for quintuplet or the like) several specialized sets of five, such as quintuplets, etc. 6: half a dozen; sice (rare) the face of a die or playing card with six pips; sextet