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Is there a slang term for a 20 or a 50


Alpo

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Started thinking about this last night. You gotta ace, you gotta deuce, you gotta fin, you gotta sawbuck. Then you jump to a c-note.

 

Are there nicknames for 20s and 50s?

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Urban slang: “Taunty” & “Fitty” or “Dub” for a 20. 

 

Besides Slim’s suggestions I have always heard the $20 bill and the $50 bill referred to as “Twenty” and “Fifty”. I have also heard “Spot” behind a bill denomination, like; “twenty spot” or “fifty spot”.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Michigan Slim said:

Jeffersons and Grants.

Jefferson is on the two. Jackson is on the 20.

 

Your better half doesn't allow you to handle big bills? :P

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48 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

”. I have also heard “Spot” behind a bill denomination, like; “twenty spot” or “fifty spot”.

I've heard spot, but only on single syllable words. A five spot or a ten spot. Never anything longer. 20 spot, or 50 spot, or even worse 100 spot just does not fall trippingly off the tongue.

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47 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Jefferson is on the two. Jackson is on the 20.

 

Your better half doesn't allow you to handle big bills? :P

Nope. Not unsupervised!

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1 hour ago, DeaconKC said:

I've heard the Ten called a Dixie too.

I've heard that, before the war, one bank in New Orleans had the word DIX ("ten" in French) on the back of their $10 banknotes. This led to the South being called Dixie.

 

I always thought that was a bit of a stretch - one piece of paper money from one bank in Louisiana leading to the entire South being called Dixie. But that's the story I've heard.

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In the 90's, many of my friends were calling 20's "yuppie food stamps", as that was the denomination primarily dispensed by an ATM.

I remember many nights of having to get more yuppie food stamps to help with the bar bill...

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Howdy,

Dead Presidents my favorite being Ben Franklin......hmmmm.

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CR

sawbuck is 20 right?

C note 100...

50 nothin I ever heard.

Dollar is buck.

Five is just fiver.

Ten well how do you shorten ten?

Never heard of Dixie. Sort of cool that.

 

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17 minutes ago, Chili Ron said:

Howdy,

Dead Presidents my favorite being Ben Franklin......hmmmm.

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CR

sawbuck is 20 right?

C note 100...

50 nothin I ever heard.

Dollar is buck.

Five is just fiver.

Ten well how do you shorten ten?

Never heard of Dixie. Sort of cool that.

 

Not Ben.

ten is a sawbuck.  Because a sawbuck is a device for holding wood so that it may be cut into pieces.[1]Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of an "X" form at each end which are joined by cross bars below the intersections of the X's. 

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