In slang, a thousand dollars may also be referred to as a "grand" or "G", "K" (as in kilo), or less commonly a "stack", a "bozo", as well as a "band" . For example, "The repairs to my car cost me a couple grand" or "The repairs to my car cost me a couple [of] stacks".
"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.
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.
bag/bag of sand = grand = one thousand pounds (£1,000), seemingly recent cockney rhyming slang, in use from around the mid-1990s in Greater London; perhaps more widely too.
The fifty dollar note is called a Pineapple, and a hundred dollar note a 'jolly green giant” or a lime or even a 'green tree frog'.
66 have signed. Let's get to 100!
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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?
Nickel. Slang for $500. Betting a nickel means betting $500.
“In the 15th century, the Old French word "grant" (stemming from the Latin grandis meaning great or large), was adopted into English as "grand." ... But in the early 1900s one thousand dollars was considered to be a "grand" sum of money, and the underground adopted "grand" as a code word for one thousand dollars.”
wads, rolls of cash, dollars, paper money. 'Soldier', 'Souljah' Nicknames and street names.
Another letter used in reference to a specific monetary denomination is "K," which stands for thousands. If someone says, "I paid 5K," for example, it means that he or she paid $5,000 USD. "A grand" is another common slang term for money, and means $1,000 USD.
The term was coined by British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note of that era had a picture of a monkey on it. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean £500.
Among other changes, the Japanese regime introduced a new currency. Pre-war British currency remained legal tender but rapidly vanished from the open market, and by 1943 the economy operated on Japanese currency, commonly referred to as “banana” money because the ten-dollar note featured a banana plant.
The $10 banknote acknowledges the literature of Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson and Dame Mary Gilmore with the image of a pen nib appearing in the top-to-bottom and small windows.
Ayrton Senna - "Tenner" i.e Ten dollars (Aust) Ten pounds (Cockney).
“Tenner” Another way of saying a perfect ten.
noun 1. a person who is poor: They can't afford to go - they're real povos.
The word “dollarydoo” isn't a real name for Australian money, but it was used in an Australia-themed episode of The Simpsons. As such, dollarydoo has its own Wikipedia page. Its only content, however is a Simpsons reference and an anecdote about a Change.org petition to make the dollarydoo actual Australian currency.
A 'bob' was the slang word for a Shilling, which was worth 12 old pennies. Following decimilisation in 1971, a Shilling was worth 5 new pence. The old 'ten bob note' (10 shillings) was the equivalent of 5 Florins, or 4 Half Crowns, or 2 Crowns.
noun. the Four Hundred US the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place. Slang.
A Rack(s) refers to money in thousand dollar amounts. Since not very many people have multiple 100 bills in stacks of $10,000 to sing about, a Rack usually refers to only $1,000.
£1000. Some people in the United Kingdom use the term bag to refer to £1000. The term is derived from the phrase "bag of sand," which is rhyming slang for "a grand."