A million dollars is sometimes called a "closet" or a "rock", popularized by several TV shows and movies.
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.
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.
MONKEY. Origin: UK via India. Meaning: London slang for £500. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India.
For instance, the fingers are valued depending on how much they are used: the amputation of a thumb is 30 shillings; index finger, 15 shillings; middle finger, 12 shillings; ring finger, 17 shillings; pinky finger, 9 shillings (laws 56-60).
A million dollars is sometimes called a "closet" or a "rock", popularized by several TV shows and movies.
Guap is slang for a lot of money—cash money.
: a lot of money.
wads, rolls of cash, dollars, paper money. 'Soldier', 'Souljah' Nicknames and street names.
Cha-ching
This onomatopoeic expression of the 90s referred to money—it was an imitation of the sound a cash register made.
One Hundred Dollars – $100 – Original Paper Note – Grey Nurse (after the shark), Ghost & Bradman ( referring to Donald Bradman's 99.94 test cricket batting average) .
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?
Gorilla: A colloquial term for one thousand dollars.
jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. Not used in the singular for in this sense, for example a five pound note would be called a 'jacks'.
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.
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synonyms for millions
On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to millions, such as: considerable, countless, infinite, innumerable, lots of, and many.
Extraordinary, rare, as in She's the kindest soul—she's one in a million, or This ring is one in a thousand. All these terms are hyperbolic.
A benjamin (lower case) was the unofficial name for a hundred dollars in the currency of the United States in the home timeline, which had gone through a period of hyperinflation.
In recent times the etymology of this phrase has developed further - our American friends often describe cash as 'cheddar'. Meaning: Slang term for money. Derived from the fact Americans on welfare used to receive cheese as part of their benefits.
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.