There is a generation-gap thing here though. Nobody over 50 would call £1000 anything other than a “grand”. “K” is more popular with the younger generation that was brought up with the metric system.
There are 100 yards in a football field, 100 dollars in a hundred dollar bill, so $100 = a yard
Least ways that is how it was 'splained to me.
Mickey D’s. They have the 1 bone value menu.
$10 = ten spot, dime (drug parlance, as in “dime bag”–though this refers to the dollar amount, not the bill necessarily)
$5 = five spot, nickel (as in “nickel bag”)
Oldies not previously mentioned.
Interesting. For some reason, I would have thought the UK had similar usage to Australia, where “K” is only ever used in plural - ie. you don’t say, “I’ve got a K to spend”. I’ve never even heard people under twenty years old use that. It’s generally used for discussing annual income. However, “grand” is known to people of every age.
Rather silly, but way back in my hippie days, ones were ‘bananas’.
Sorry, I seem to have confused you. My bad.
“K” is only used in the plural sense here, as well. The difference is that older people will say, for example, “twenty grand” exclusively, whereas younger people are more likely to say “twenty K” (though they both understand and use “twenty grand” as well). Note, by “younger” I don’t mean “under 20”. Kids have no business talking about grown-up numbers like 20000. I mean “old enough to have a job, but not old enough to be obsessed with your pension arrangements”.
I’ve lived 50 years without ever hearing “yard” in terms of money.
I also have to dispute the bill = president’s name convention, for anything other than Benjamins. I’ve never heard of a “Lincoln”, for example (and nothing over $100 is in circulation any more, btw).
Casinos refer to $5 and $25 chips as “nickels” and “quarters”, respectively.
Which segues nicely into a related topic – notice how every US coin has a nickname? The 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, 25 cent and 50 cent coins are never called that: they’re penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half, respectively.
Similar to the Canadian $1 coin, the Loonie. And it’s $2 companion, the Twonie.
Yes. There’s a story, probably a UL, where a TV pitchman for a used car lot offers to sell “this little beauty to the first person to come in here with 1500 bananas.” He ended up sheepishly turning it over to a sharp cookie with a truckload of actual bananas.
Dollars are also clams, dolls, Georges, smackers, smackeroos, shekels, simoleons, greenbacks, skins, and dozens more I don’t know.
Recent dollar coins are called Susies and Sackies. Sackies are also Goldies, for the color, not the metal.
Money in general can be long green, cabbage, lettuce, dough, bread, do-re-mi, grease (a bribe,) wherewithal, capital, chump change (with contempt, a small amount,) elephant dollars (a whole lot,) and vig (a service charge or interest, usually illegal.)
When you pay what you owe, it’s pony up, pungle up, fork it over, get squared, shake the change from your old fruit jar, raid the piggy bank, dig down deep, shell out, and feed the kitty.
When you don’t pay what you owe is it curtains?
Last night I had dinner from Taco Bell for 2 bones, 15 cents. Including tax. (Burrito Supreme. Yum!)
Without peeking…what denomination is stamped on each US coin? (hint: it’s not consistent)
I’ve got a couple more for British money:
£5 is a Lady (Lady Godiva=fiver)
£15 is a Commodore (“once, twice, three times a lady”)
£6= poorly octopus (sick squid, geddit?)
Expansion on the Ayrton Senna=£10(tenner)… £10 is also known as “a dead Brazilian”, for obvious reasons.
This site has lots more.
Obvious to you, maybe…
I feel stupid.
Ayrton Senna was a Brazilian F1 driver who died in a crash during a race.
It’s in horrible taste, but I can’t deny I’ve heard it.
In Queensland a 20 is a Brick or a Red Brick. This is a hangover from Imperial currency.
Back in the day, my favourite pub was the Red Brick Hotel in Wooloongabba - so named not for it’s mode of construction, but for the fact that due to it’s being down the way from the notorious Boggo road jail, it was a frequent first stop for newly released prisoners - who, when released were given a new suit and a 20 pound note. Hence, the Red Brick pub was where you spent your red brick.
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Ask Nott, were you ever in a production of Guys and Dolls?
What about “ten spot” for ten dollar bill? In my experience, that’s a lot more common that “sawbuck.”
By the way, something missing from this thread so far is that some notes once had roman numerals on them, and that’s the source of the terms “C-note” and “sawbuck.” Sawbuck is another name for sawhorse, and that’s what the “X” looked like on the ten spot.