A five-dollar note is known colloquially as a fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck. A ten-dollar note is known colloquially as a ten-spot, a dixie, a sawbuck, or a tenner.
Everyone knows 'lobster' is the beloved term for twenties, however, my personal favourite is the 'pineapple' for the fifty-dollar note which, interestingly enough, everyone always apologises for using whenever they have one.
In Australia, the Five Dollar note alone has at least fourteen nicknames. Like in the UK, it is called a “fiver”, but other names include “a Fairy Floss”, a “Galah”, a “Skydiver”, a “Pink Lady”, or a “Pink Snapper”.
$5 bill has been referred to as a "fin", "fiver" or "five-spot". $10 bill is a "sawbuck", a "ten-spot", or a "Hamilton". $20 bill as a "Jackson", or a "dub", or a "double sawbuck". Among horse-race gamblers, the $50 bill is called a "frog" and is considered unlucky.
The Bank of England £5 note, also known as a fiver, is a sterling banknote . It is the smallest denomination of banknote currently issued by the Bank of England.
Aussie Word of the Week
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Why Is a $10 Bill Called a Sawbuck? A sawbuck or sawhorse resembles "X," which is also the Roman numeral for "10." The first $10 bills issued by the U.S. government in the 1860s prominently featured the Roman numeral 10; the huge Xs looked like sawbucks' side. So "sawbuck" became a way to refer to a 10-dollar bill.
noun(used with a singular or plural verb)Slang. twenty-five cents.
Australian slang
Australians use some fun slang words to refer to their colorful paper money. Some of these terms include prawn for the pink five dollar bill, blue swimmer for the blue 10, lobster for the red 20, and pineapple for the yellow 50.
Gorilla: A colloquial term for one thousand dollars.
Bread is made of dough, which is another common slang term that means money. Bread is money. “I do it for the bread.” An adjective used to describe someone wearing expensive items, like diamond jewelry, or to describe a nice outfit, in general.
The dime is the United States' 10-cent coin.
Half is also used as a logical prefix for many slang words which mean a pound, to form a slang expresion for ten shillings and more recently fifty pence (50p), for example and most popularly, 'half a nicker', 'half a quid', etc.
The British empire's control of India led to a number of phrases making their way across from the Raj to our shores, with a 'monkey' perhaps the most famous. Referring to £500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side.
"C-note" is a slang term for a $100 banknote in U.S. currency. The "C" in C-note refers to the Roman numeral for 100, which was printed on $100 bills, and it can also refer to a century.
Lobster, pineapple, gray nurse
The $100 note, a blue gray, has now been named after a shark (grey nurse).
Did you know that pineapple is a slang word for the fifty dollar note? It's also the name for an opal cluster. So we could say that finding a pineapple could earn you a lot of pineapples, if you catch my drift.
Hello, 20 dollar bill simply means the 20$ note. However, the $20 bill is sometimes referred to as a "Jackson", or a "dub".
The closer the banknote is to the very first batch produced, the more valuable it could be. These are the notes that start with the 'AA01' prefix. If your note is then followed by a serial code in the low digits, it's likely to be even more attractive.
Where do the terms 'monkey' and 'pony' come from? Whilst this is not cemented in fact, the widely held belief is that the terms came from soldiers returning to Britain from India. Old Indian rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee featured a pony.
The $5 banknote showcases the Forecourt Mosaic, which is based on a Central Desert dot-style painting by Michael Nelson Jagamara titled 'Possum and Wallaby Dreaming'.
The 20 cent coin, also known as a "double dime" by some numismatists, was produced from 1875 through 1878 and was designed by William Barber.
Three quarters would be 75 cents, or 75 percent of a dollar.