In Australia, a $20 note is most commonly called a "lobster" or sometimes a "lobbo" because of its bright red color, similar to the yellow $50 note being a "pineapple".
Since 1995 it has been a polymer banknote featuring portraits of Edith Cowan, first female member of an Australian parliament, and inventor and Australia's first published Aboriginal Australian author, David Unaipon. The $50 banknote is also called a "pineapple" given its bright yellow colour.
The banknote celebrates Mary Reibey, a convict who arrived in Australia and later became an astute and successful businesswoman running her shipping and trading enterprises, and John Flynn, who pioneered the world's first aerial medical service now known as the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Hello, 20 dollar bill simply means the 20$ note. However, the $20 bill is sometimes referred to as a "Jackson", or a "dub".
The $10 note is referred to as a "tenner" or again, less commonly, a "Blue Swimmer", other variations of this nickname exist such as the "blue grenadier", it may also rarely be called a "blue tongue", in reference to the Australian blue-tongue lizard.
A five-dollar bill got its nickname “fin” from the Yiddish word “finf,” meaning five, while the slang term “sawbuck” references the Roman X that used to be part of the $10 bill design, reminding people of a wooden sawhorse/sawbuck. A dub, or $20, is just a double sawbuck.
Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?
Dub for double was slang for $20 (double ten) in the 1940s and for a $20 worth of a drug in the 2010s, as seen in some hip-hop lyrics. Speaking of drugs, dub has named a cigarette in the 1970s and then a marijuana joint in the 1990s, perhaps as a form of doobie.
What's your 20? is part of a system of radio codes called 10-codes. They developed in the late 1930s when police squads began using two-way radio to communicate. One was 10-20, meaning “location.” Asking What's your 20? emerged as a way to seek another's whereabouts.
The United States twenty-dollar note (US$20), also referred to as the United States twenty-dollar bill, is a denomination of U.S. currency.
The choice of Kate Cranston to feature on the £20 note was taken by the Royal Bank of Scotland Scottish Board.
This twenty pound note was issued in Australia between 1914 and 1938. The back of it depicts the cutting of bluegum trees on Bruny Island, Tasmania, in about 1895. It reveals the central role of timber getting in the establishment and early economy of the Australian colony.
MONKEY. Meaning: London slang for £500. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India.
In the Uk, a fiver is 5 pounds - it is also referred to as a 'Deep sea diver' in Cockney rhyming slang A nine to five - is a standard job where you work between 9.
Slang Words for 1000 Dollars ($1000) Here is the list of slang words for 1000 dollars ($1000): Grand K Stack G Band Large Thou Kilobuck Gee Big one Rack Cheddar Dime Bill Blue cheese C-note (though traditionally this is for $100) Green Gra...
£1 - "A quid" (This is probably one of the most common slang terms for pounds.) £5 - "A fiver" (A widely used term for a £5 note.) £10 - "A tenner" (Similarly, a £10 note is often referred to as a tenner.) £20 - "A score" or "a pony" (A less common term, but still heard occasionally.)
Yes, a dub is a slang term for $20 worth of cannabis.
As for the $100 note, these are so rare to me that I had to look up what reference is being used and found 'granny smiths' being listed. Nice. If you're reading this, chances are you Googled 'Australian money slang' or similar and found us at the top of the results page.
Aussie Slang – Expressions (A-Z)
Crack the whip – telling someone to hurry up!
“Dear Dad, Here is 5 dollarbucks to use how you please on Father's Day. Spend it wisely!”
(Australia, slang) Alternative form of veggo (“vegetarian”).
The $50 bill might seem like just another piece of paper in your wallet, but it's got some cool names in the world of slang. Believe it or not, it's often called a "Grant," which is pretty straightforward since Ulysses S. Grant's portrait is right there on the front.
Security Thread. Hold the note to light to see an embedded thread running vertically to the left of the portrait. The thread is imprinted with the text USA TWENTY and a small flag in an alternating pattern and is visible from both sides of the note. The thread glows green when illuminated by ultraviolet light.
The word buck as a term for the U.S. dollar dates back to the 1700s, when deer hides, or buckskins, were often used in trade on the American frontier. Settlers and traders in sparsely populated regions relied on bartering, and buckskins were durable, valuable, and widely accepted.