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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
1. Five dollar bill [5] 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck [5] absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner [6] ab-so-lute-ly Affirmative, Yes [6] absotively Absolutely and positively [4] ace 1. One dollar bill; see clam [7] 2. An airplane adept [4] 3. An artist in any line [4] acknowledge the corn Admit responsibility for [4] ad
Jackson [9] – USD $20 bill; Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand [5] Large [9] – £1,000, USD $1,000; Lettuce [9] Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar, [5] because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side [11] Loot; Moolah [9] P – money, pennies; Perak – Indonesian rupiah for coin ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
"Dollar Bill" is a song by the American alternative rock group Screaming Trees. It is the second single released in support of their sixth album, Sweet Oblivion.
On the back of the bill the eagle is holding 13 arrows and an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives. The eagle's shield has 13 vertical stripes and 13 horizontal stripes. The number 13 ...
The American one-dollar bill has been an enormous source of mystery for many years. While it is something that nearly every American has come into contact with over and over again, there still ...
"Sawbuck" is also a slang term for a U.S. $10 bill, thought to be derived from the similarity between the shape of a sawbuck device and the Roman numeral X (10), which formerly appeared on $10 bills. [2] However, there is some question whether this etymology is accurate, as the first known appearance of the word in print refers to the $10 bill ...