POUND (money)
NOUNS
► ABRAHAM NEWLAND £5 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► ACE £1 → 1950s UK criminals’ sl.
► ACID DROP a pound, a sovereign → 1920s sl.
► ACIDULATED TABLET a pound, a sovereign → 1920s sl.
► ALAN WHICKER £1 → 1990s Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘nicker’
► APPLE twenty pounds; in betting; odds of 20-1 → 1974 UK sl.
► APPLE CORE £20 → 1950s Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘score’
► ARCHER £2000 → 1990s sl.
► AYRTON (SENNA) a tenner, a £10 note → 1990s Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘tenner’
► BAG OF SAND 1000; usually £1000 → 1990s rhyming sl. for ‘grand’
► BAR a pound; usually in the phrase ‘half a bar’; ten shillings → 1911 Brit. sl.
► BAY £1 → 2000 UK sl.
► BEAN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► BEN a £10 note or the sum of ten pounds → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► BENJAMIN a $100 note → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► BENNER a £10 note or the sum of ten pounds → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► BERNIE the sum of £1 million → 1997 UK sl.
► BERRY a pound; usually used in the plural → 1934 Brit. sl.
► BIEN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► BIG M a million pounds → 1978 UK sl.
► BILL a £100 note, or an amount of one hundred pounds → 2003 UK sl.
► BLEEDER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► BLUE ONE a £10 note → 1950s Irish sl.
► BLUEY a £5 note → 1990s sl.
► BOYZ £1 → 1990s UK sl.
► BRADBURY a one-pound note → 1917 Brit. sl.
► BROWN a £10 note or an amount of £10 → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► BROWN SHEET a £10 note → 1999 Black British sl.
► CANARY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► CARPET 1. the sum of £3 → c1942 Brit. cant
2. the sum of £300 → 1950s secondhand-car dealers’ sl.
► CARPETO ► CARPITO £30 → 2002 UK ticket-touting sl.
► CARPIT £300 → 2002 UK ticket-touting sl.
► CENTURY £100 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► CHERRY PICKER £1 → 1974 UK rhyming sl. for ‘nicker’
► CHIP £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► COOTER ► COUTER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► COW £1,000 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► CRACKER a £1 note → c1920 Aust. sl.
► DANNY BOY £20 → 2000s Irish sl.
► DEUCE £2 → 1950s sl.
► DOONUP £1 sterling → M19 back-slang
► DOUBLE-FINNUP £10 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► DRAGON £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► DUNOP £1 → M19 back-slang
► EDGE NOTE a £50 note → 2002 UK prison sl.
► FIDDLEY a pound → 1941 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘quid’ (Fiddle-did’)
► FIDDLEY-DID a pound → 1941 Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘quid’
► FIN ► FINN a five-pound note → 1839 Brit. sl.
► FINIF ► FINIFF ► FINNIF ► FINNIFF ► FINUF a five-pound note → 1839 Brit. sl.
► FINNIP ► FINNUP a five-pound note → 1839 Brit. sl.
► FISHER a one-pound note or other currency note → 1922 Brit. sl.
► FIVER five pounds or a five-pound note → 1843 Brit. sl.
► FIVE-SPOT a five-pound note → 1984 UK sl.
► FLIM a five-pound note → 1870 Brit. sl.
► FLIMSY £5 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► FOONT £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► FROGSKIN a pound note → 1907 Aust. sl.
► G ► GEE a thousand (usually dollars or pounds) → 1928 sl., orig. US
► GEORGE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► GINGLEBOY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► GLISTENER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► GOBLIN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► GODIVA a five-pound note, or the sum of £5 → 1960 UK sl. for ‘fiver’
► GOLDFINCH £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► GRAND £1000 or $1000 → 1915 sl., orig. US
► GREENBACK a one-pound note → 1961 UK sl.
► HALF £50 or $50 → 1920s sl.
► HALF A COCK five pounds, £5 → 1950 UK sl., based on rhyming sl. ‘cockle and hen (ten)
► HALF-A-TON £50 → 1940s sl.
► HARLEQUIN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► HOLE IN THE GROUND £1 sterling → 20C rhyming sl.
► HORSE-SOVEREIGN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► ILLEGITIMATE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► IRON MAN a pound or a one-pound note → 1959 Brit. sl., orig. Aust.
► JACK 1. £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
2. five pounds → 1958 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘five’ (Jack’s alive)
► JACKS five pounds → 1958 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘five’ (Jack’s alive)
► JANE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► JAX five pounds → 1958 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘five’ (Jack’s alive)
► JEMMY O’GOBLIN ► JIMMY O’GOBLIN a pound → 1889 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘sovereign’
► JIM a pound → 1889 Aust. sl. (short for ‘Jimmy O’Goblin’)
► JIMMY a pound → 1889 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘sovereign’ (Jimmy O’Goblin)
► JOB ► JOBE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► K 1000, esp. as $1000 or £1000 → 1960s sl.
► LADY (GODIVA) a five-pound note, or the sum of £5 → 1960 UK sl. for ‘fiver’
► LEGS ELEVEN £11 → 1950s sl.
► LID a pound → 1951 UK rhyming sl. for ‘quid’ (Saucepan Lid)
► LIL ► LILL £5 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► LINCOLN’S INN a £5 note → L19 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘finn’
► LONG-TAILED FINNUP £10 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► MACARONI a pony; hence £25 → 1857 UK rhyming sl.
► MARIGOLD £1,000,000 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► MARSHALL £5 → L19 sl.
► MEG £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► MONARCH a coin of the value of one pound → 1851 Brit. sl., obs.
► MONKEY 500 pounds sterling; also, 500 Australian dollars → 1827 UK & Aust. sl.
► MOUSETRAP £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► NED £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► NEDDY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► NEW-HAT £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► NICK £1 → 1945 sl.
► NICKER £1 → 1871 sl.
► NICKER BIT the pound coin → 1980s sl.
► NOB £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► NOTE an old term for £1 → Brit. sl.
► NUNNY-BUNNY £5 → 2001 Irish sl.
► NUN WITH A PRICE ON HER HEAD a £5 note → 1997 Irish sl.
► O’GOBLIN a pound → 1909 Brit. sl. (Jimmy O’Goblin)
► OLD MR. GORY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► ONCE £1, a £1 note → 1930s sl.
► ONCER one-pound note → 1931 Brit. sl.
► ONE a £1 note; an Australian $1 bill → 1930s sl.
► ONE-AND-A-HALF £150 → 1980s sl.
► ONER one pound; also one hundred pounds → 1889 Brit. sl.
► PAIR OF NICKERS £2 → Brit. sl.
► PHUNT one pound sterling → L19 grafters’ sl.
► PINNIF £5 → 1903 back sl. (Bk.)
► PLANTAIN LEAF a £1 note → 1940s W. Indies sl.
► PLUM £100,000 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► PONTE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► PONY £25 → 1797 UK sl.
► POONA £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► POTATOES pounds → 1939 Brit. sl.
► QUID a sovereign; a guinea; a pound → 1688 sl.
► QUIDLET a pound sterling → 1900s sl.
► RED ‘UN a pound; a sovereign → 1890 Brit. sl.
► REDGE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► REMEDY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► RIDGE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► ROAF ► ROFE ► ROOF ► ROUF four shillings or four pounds → 1851 back-slang
► SAUCEPAN (LID) a quid → 1951 UK rhyming sl.
► SCORE $20 or £20 → 1929 sl.
► SHEET a one-pound note or a pound→ 1958 Brit. sl.
► SHINER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SICK SQUID £6 → 2002 UK sl.
► SKIN £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SKIN-DIVER a £5 note; the sum of £5 → 1988 Glasgow rhyming sl. for ‘fiver’
► SKIV £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► SMACKER a dollar or a pound → 1920 sl., orig. US
► SMACKEROO a pound → 1961 Brit. sl.
► SMACKEROONIE a pound sterling → 1999 UK sl.
► SOB a pound → 1970 Brit. sl.
► SOV a pound → 1829 Brit. sl.
► SPIN a pound → 1941 Aust. sl.
► SPINNAKER five pounds or a five-pound note → 1898 Aust. sl.
► STRANGER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► STRIKE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► TENNER ten pounds or a ten pound note → 1845 Brit. sl.
► THICK ONE ► THICK ‘UN a gold sovereign, a pound; also, a crown or five-shilling piece → 1848 Brit. sl.
► THOU £1000 or $1000 → 1869 sl.
► TINY TIM a £5 note → 1992 rhyming sl. for ‘flim’
► TOADSKIN a five-pound note → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► TON £100 → 1946 sl.
► TWENTY a ₤20 note → 1999 UK sl.
► UNLUCKY FOR SOME. £13 → 1940s sl.
► WALRUS £50 → 2000s Irish sl.
► WALTZ ME AROUND a pound → 1980s Aust. rhyming sl.
► YELLOW-BOY £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► YELLOW-GEORGE £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► YELLOW-HAMMER £1 → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
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