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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    A one hundred dollar bill can also be called a buck, or a "dollar", but since a buck is also used for one dollar, the context needs to be clear (this continues the pattern of referring to values by the coin counterpart). A "hoka" is used to express a large sum of money, usually between ten thousand and fifty thousand dollars.

  3. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be used to mean either a definite (she has a million followers now) or an indefinite value (she signed what felt like a million papers). The title The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (lit. "a thousand nights and one night") impiles a large number of nights. [22]

  5. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    $1,750: One thousand, seven hundred fifty and 00/100. $47.99: Forty-seven and 99/100. $899: Eight hundred ninety-nine and 00/100. ... Write the amount in numbers in the box with the dollar sign.

  6. Mill (currency) - Wikipedia

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    With respect to property taxes, a "mil" is also slang for one million units of currency, especially as a rate expressed per mille "‰", as one million units of currency per milliard on the long scale of numeration, that is, 1,000,000 per 1,000,000,000 currency units of assessed valuation on all private property throughout the "mill yard" or ...

  7. List of alternative names for currency - Wikipedia

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    Large [9] – £1,000, USD $1,000; Lettuce [9] Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar, [5] because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side [11] Loot; Moolah [9] P – money, pennies; Perak – Indonesian rupiah for coin, derivative from silver. Quid – Pound sterling; Racks – large sums of money, 10 of ...

  8. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    1. Five dollar bill [7] 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck [7] absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner [8] ab-so-lute-ly Affirmative, Yes [8] ace One dollar bill; see clam [9] air tight Very attractive [8] airedale Unattractive man [8] alarm clock Chaperone [8] alderman Man's pot-belly or simply a prominent belly of a man ...

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