You guys forgot: bread and jack, jingle, bone, cheddar, greens, nuggets, plums, wad, wedge, stash, cabbage, loot, pics of dead presidents, hog, bacon. I'm not a native english speaker, so sometimes it gets very difficult to find the meaning of this slang terminology. Nobody uses it today, and as for the poster above who used "scratch", that term was recently used in the movie Horrible Bosses. I absolutely enjoyed this article! I haven't heard the term "two bits" since my grandmother used it over 40 years ago. So does that mean the hundred k is equal to hundred grand, because k and grand both refer to thousand. "SMU" is most commonly used by techies and geeks who use a lot of TLAs in their work and studies (TLA = three letter acronym). Since the advent of ATMs: $20 bill = "SMU" = "Standard Monetary Unit" because USA ATMs only distribute 20-dollar bills, unlike machines in most countries that give multiple denominations. $20: Twamp, initially referred to an amount of marijuana, now some use it to indicate Jackson bills. I read this in the book Junkie by William Burroughs. $100-Hundie, heard this in Midwest casinos, as in "I made Five hundie", "or gimme a hundie."Ī collection of loose change: smash. I doubt if "cash" is even considered a slang term anymore.Ĭarney speak = fin, sawbuck, double, half-yard, yard, 5 spot when we had a 500 dollar bill, G note 1000 dollar bill. Moolah, Green, Cash, Dough, are the only USA slang terms I've heard. 50 Dollar Bill - Calf.ġ00 Dollar Bill and a 50 Dollar Bill together - Cow and a Calf. What are the latest terms in the US to say $10,000 or $20,000?Īny one heard of the term "fence post" when referring to money?Ĭash, moolah, jack, dollas OR dollars, gwop, guac, guapo, bucks, greenbacks, paper, semolians, dub, dead presidents, stack(s), rack(s), hundo, hunge, hunnit, yard, fiver, tener, single(s), cheese, chedder *or* chedda, clams, cashola, bones, benjamin, benji, coin, dub, fitty, dime, nickel, tension, scrilla, big faces, grand(s), dough, bread, scratch, money, guacamole', lettuce, mail, cabbage, smackers, smackeroonies, chips,Ĭ-note(s), g-note(s), bone(s), greens, wad, stash, cream, loot, bacon, duckets.ġ00 Dollar Bill - Cow. Large "K" is misused so often that it is essentially interchangeable in the non-science, non-tech world.įor science and technology: K = degrees kelvin, k = 1000 as a unit-prefix. It is pretty common in sports betting or gambling.Īnon258464 correctly used the lower case "k" as = 1,000.
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