While money isn’t actually made out of paper (it’s made out of cotton fibers), bills are sometimes referred to as “paper” in slang terms. That may change in the not too distant future. While “plastic” is a term which is usually reserved for credit cards, it may soon become yet another slang term for those bills in your pocket. Canada has decided to use plastic for it’s new bills in an attempt to make them more difficult to counterfeit:
And just for those that want to use something a bit different than “money” in your next conversation, here are over 100 money slang terms from bacon to yen — I’m sure there are many more that I missed, so feel free to add more in the comments.
bacon, baht, bananas, banknotes, bankroll, beans, Benjamins ($100 bills), big ones, bills, bits, boffo, bones, booty, bottle caps, bread, buckaroos, bucks, bullets, bundle
C-notes ($100 bills), cabbage, cake, capital, cash, cents, change, checks, cheddar, cheese, chips, chits, chump change, clams, coconuts, coin, copper, cream, currency
dead presidents, dibs, dinars, dinero, dollars, doubloons, dough, drachmae, drafts, duckettes
Euros
feti, finances, fins ($5 bills), fish, folding green, fortune, frogskins, funds
Gs ($1000), gelt, gold, grand ($1000), gravy, green, greenbacks, grip, guilders, guineas, gwop
honey, hundies ($100 bills)
jack, Jacksons ($50 bills)
K ($1000), kale, keesh, king’s ransom
lettuce, long green, loonies, loot, lucre, lumber
mangos, marbles, marks, mazuma, means, mint, mite, moolah
pap, paper, pelf, pelts, pesos, pieces of eight, pin money, pittance, plaster, pocket money, pop cans, potatoes
quid
relish, resources, riches, ringgits, rivets, roll, rubles, rupees
sacagaweas, sawbucks ($10 bills), scratch, scrilla, scrip, shekels, shillings, shrapnel, silver, simoleons, smack, smackers, specie, spending money, spondulicks, stack, stake, stash
tender, tips, treasure
USD
wad, WAM (walking around money), wampum, won, wonga
yen
Jeffrey strain is a freelance author, his work has appeared at The Street.com and seekingalpha.com. In addition to having authored thousands of articles, Jeffrey is a former resident of Japan, former owner of Savingadvice.com and a professional digital nomad.
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