Fins: five-dollar bills (perhaps from the shared initial sound with fives)Ģ4. Doubles (or dubs): twenty-dollar billsġ9. Dough: money in general (akin to the usage of bread)ġ7-18. Dime: ten dollars (by multiplication of the value of the ten-cent coin)ġ6. Dead presidents: paper money (from the portraits of various former US presidents that usually distinguish bills of various denominations)ġ5. Cs (or C-notes): multiples of one hundred dollars (from the Roman symbol for “one hundred”)ġ4.
Clams: dollars (perhaps from the onetime use of seashells as currency)ġ2-13. Cheddar (or chedda): money (origin unknown, but perhaps from the concept of cheese distributed by the government to welfare recipients)ġ0. Bucks: dollars (perhaps from a reference to buckskins, or deerskins, which were once used as currency)ĩ. Bread: money in general (on the analogy of it being a staple of life)ħ. Bills: multiples of one hundred dollarsĦ. Big ones: multiples of one thousand dollarsĤ. Benjamins: a one-hundred-dollar bill (in reference to the portrait of Benjamin Franklin that distinguishes it)ģ. Here’s a roster of slang synonyms in plural form for words for US currency in particular, many of which are useful for playful references to money or as options for evoking a historical period in fiction by using contemporary idiom:Ģ. I find very little about money to be interesting, other than counting my own, but I’ve noted that there’s a rich fund of slang terms for money that can help enliven both casual and more serious content about currency and finance.
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