Ones: dollars (also, fives for “five-dollar bills,” tens for “ten-dollar bills,” and so on)ģ5. Nickel: five dollars (by multiplication of the value of the five-cent coin)ģ4. Moola (or moolah): money (origin unknown)ģ3. Lucre: money or profit (from the biblical expression “filthy lucre,” meaning “ill-gained money”)ģ2. Loot: money (originally denoted goods obtained illicitly or as the spoils of war)ģ1. Long green: paper money (from its shape and color)ģ0. Grand: one thousand dollars (as in “three grand” for “three thousand dollars”)Ģ8. Gs: thousand-dollar bills (an abbreviation for grand)Ģ6. Greenbacks: paper money (from the color of the ink)Ģ5. 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.

Funny words for money