2021 J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 173: I’m Chief Bill Parker’s back-room bitch and punk pawn. (b) (UK campus) one who plays host at a tea-party. 1792 17951800 1803 1792 letter in C. Wordsworth Social Life at Eng. Universities (1874) 128: And rolls he cleverly does spread / Or...
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34.Ones: dollars (also,fivesfor “five-dollar bills,”tensfor “ten-dollar bills,” and so on) 35.Quarter: twenty-five dollars (by multiplication of the value of the twenty-five-cent coin) 36.Sawbucks: ten-dollar bills (from the resemblance of X, the Roman symbol for ten, to a saw...
To a Brit, the pound sign is the wiggly thing we use to denote the UK pound (or quid), in the same way you have a dollar sign. leg it walk Leg it - This is a way of saying run or run for it. short sleep a short period of sleep Kip - A short sleep, forty winks, or...
You would use this when deciding which bill to pay first. 9 Knee High to a Grasshopper 389 votes This doesn't refer to your height, but rather your age. Most people were "knee high to a grasshopper" when they were 2 or 3. Before then they were "down to an ant's ...
Ante up -to pay back a debt. Usually pony up. 'Hey Bill, time to pony up you know.' Ants in your pants -Someone who is fidgety or nervous. Ants pants -Similar to the bees knees. Refers to someone who thinks they are pretty good. 'Rachel thinks she is the ants pants.' ...
This slang term for money is actually an acronym of “George Washington On Paper”—referring to the first US president, who appears on the one-dollar bill. 59. Hamilton Even though he wasn’t a president,the Founding Father without a fathergot a lot farther by being on the ten-dollar ...
The slangcoinis used in both the United States and the United Kingdom to refer generally to money, and not just the varieties of metal coins that have been used as currency for thousands of years. bills Dollar bills have been issued by the US government since 1862, but the slangbillis ...
Horse's hoof - poof (offensive term for a male homosexual) I suppose - nose Jam tart - heart Jack and Jill - bill (restaurant bill)/pill (contraceptive) Jatz crackers - knackers (testicles - the wife of a hen-pecked husband is said to have his jatz crackers in her grey-nurse (meanin...
1912 Van Loan ‘The Comeback’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 214: I’d give a nice piece of money to know that you could pitch. 1919 Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, Jo...