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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 ...
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 ...
The answer boxes denoting the number of letters in a word was shown with a crossword clue and a dollar value. As the game progressed, a word could have multiple blanks already filled in. After the clue was read, the contestants could ring in, with the order they did so denoted on the screens on the front of their podiums.
Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand [5] 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 ...
The National Credit Union Administration tells consumers to use words for dollars and fractions out of 100 for cents. For example, if your check is for $19.99, you would write it out as ...
A $100 hamburger trip typically involves flying a short distance (less than two hours), eating at an airport restaurant, and then flying home."$100" originally referred to the approximate cost of renting or operating a light general aviation aircraft, such as a Cessna 172, for the time it took to fly round-trip to a nearby airport.
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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