Definition of Buck A slang term for one million dollars.
A "hoka" is used to express a large sum of money, usually between ten thousand and fifty thousand dollars. "honey bun" derived from the term "honey bun harden" is mainly used when referring to a hundred thousand. A million dollars is sometimes called a "closet" or a "rock", popularized by several TV shows and movies.
Australian currency
$1 and $2 dollars come in coins. Cents come in 5, 10, 20 and 50 coins. Slang terms. $5 are often called 'fivers' and $10 are called 'tenners' $20 are known as 'lobsters' because their red colour.
In slang, a thousand dollars may also be referred to as a "grand" or "G", "K" (as in kilo), or less commonly a "stack", a "bozo", as well as a "band" .
Rolling in it. Definition: Someone with a lot of money–so much so that they can physically roll around in large piles of it. Origin: Rolling comes from 'to enjoy ample amounts'. Roll is US slang meaning an amount of money.
quids in (slang) filthy rich. rolling in it (slang) on Easy Street (informal) stinking rich (slang)
A brick of $100 bills weighs 2.2 pounds and has a value of $100,000. Remember a brick, or bundle, has 10 currency straps of 100 bills each which is a total of 1,000 bills.
A "yard" is a financial slang term meaning one billion. It is used to avoid confusion with the words million or trillion when making a trade. The term is often used in currency trading.
"C-note" is used less frequently in contemporary slang, and it has been replaced by "Benjamin." This term comes from Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the U.S., whose portrait is on the front of the $100 banknote. Other slang terms for a $100 bill are, therefore, "Franklins" and "Bens."
The term “grand” has been in use as an American slang from the early 1900s, presumably from the phrase “a grand sum of money” which meant $1,000. Well, it is not yet clear who first used the phrase. The best we can do, in most cases, is to find the earliest written usage, which is around 1915 for 'grand'.
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?
These include rrupiya (Mawng, Burarra, Djinang) and wurrupiya (Tiwi). (And note that Tiwi also uses wurrukwati “mussel shell” for “money”). Probably the most innovative borrowing for money, still used throughout south-western Queensland, is banggu.
Gorilla: A colloquial term for one thousand dollars. Got at: A horse is said to have been got at when it was by any means been put in such a condition that it cannot win.
Here's a quick reference to abbreviating numbers on your resume: Million = MM or M. Billion = B. Thousand = K.
ˌsentəˈmilyəˌna(a)(ə)r. : one whose wealth is estimated at one hundred million (as of dollars or pounds) or more.
The last box — the finish line — was to make a "stick," which means earn one million dollars in a year.
jacks = five pounds, from cockney rhyming slang: jack's alive = five. Not used in the singular for in this sense, for example a five pound note would be called a 'jacks'.
MONKEY. Meaning: London slang for £500. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey.
Dime: Another reference to coin, specifically the dime. Doubloons: Money in general; reference to gold doubloons. Dough: Money in general (origin unknown). Fetti: Money in general; originates from feria, the Spanish term for money.
The guy very politely explained that a “pineapple” is Aussie slang for the yellow $50 note (i.e. a $5 is a “prawn,” a $20 is a “lobster”), and as hilarious as this was, asked if he could please bring the actual money next time.
The term was coined by British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note of that era had a picture of a monkey on it. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean £500.
nounInformal. an extremely large, indeterminate number.
Whilst this is not cemented in fact, the widely held belief is that the terms came from soldiers returning to Britain from India. Old Indian rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee featured a pony.
A 'bob' was the slang word for a Shilling, which was worth 12 old pennies. Following decimilisation in 1971, a Shilling was worth 5 new pence. The old 'ten bob note' (10 shillings) was the equivalent of 5 Florins, or 4 Half Crowns, or 2 Crowns. After decimilisation, it was worth 50p.
The term and slang “Rack” and "Racks" are nouns, which are used to reference money. A Rack means one thousand dollars ($1000). Racks means thousands of dollars. Racks is also sometimes used to reference having lots of money.