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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
an assumed name, a nickname (often used in a pejorative way in French). [53] soi-disant lit. "oneself saying"; so-called; self-described. soigné fashionable; polished. soirée an evening party. sommelier a wine steward. soupçon a very small amount. (In French, it can also mean "suspicion".) soupe du jour
The term is still unofficially used in Quebec, Acadian, Franco-Manitoban, and Franco-Ontarian language as a reference to the Canadian dollar, much as English speakers say "bucks." (The official French term for the modern Canadian dollar is dollar.) When used colloquially in this way, the term is often pronounced and spelled piasse (pl. piasses).
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1,000 Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144 Twelve dozen Score: 20 Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty.
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The portrait of Robert Morris appeared on the first 1000 dollar bill. Mayor of New York DeWitt Clinton appeared on two other versions. [ 1 ] The obverse of the 1928 and 1934 series features a portrait of Grover Cleveland facing right while toward a United States Department of the Treasury seal.
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