This is a list of alternative names for currency. A currency refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.
Alternative names for currency
English Currency (Cockney Rhyming Slang) Source: Generic Term: "bread" from "Bread & Honey" for "Money" £5: "Lady Godiva" or "fiver" £10: "cockle" from "Cock & Hen" or "tenner" £1000: "bag" from "Bag of Sand" for "grand"
Other Aussie – Australian dollar Bank Benjamins Benjie – a name for a USD $100 bill that was sometimes tucked away by touring deadheads for emergency use Bills Bones Bread Buck/bucks C-note - slang for $100 bill (for the Roman numeral C, meaning 100) Cabbage Cheddar Clams Coin Cream Chips Dead presidents Dosh Dough Fiver – £5 note, USD $5 bill Grand – £1,000, USD $1,000 Greenbacks Green Stuff Gs – Increments of USD $1,000 Jackson – USD $20 bill Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand Large – £1,000, USD $1,000 Lettuce Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar, because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side Loot Moolah P – money, pennies Perak – Indonesian rupiah for coin, derivative from silver. Quid – Pound sterling Racks – large sums of money, 10 of these make one stack Rocks – coins Sawbuck Scratch Singles Smackers Soft money – a colloquial term for paper currency in the United States Spot – such as "five spot", "ten spot", etc. Stacks - large sums of money, 10 racks Tenner – £10 note, USD $10 bill Toonie – Canadian two dollar coin Two bits Wad Wonga – British slang “Wonga”, Oxford Dictionary, accessed 22 October 2017. Conto – Brazilian Real Pau – Brazilian Real Pila – Brazilian Real
See also
Slang terms for money List of currencies List of historical currencies
References