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Informal words for units of money

buck

noun

a dollar

five

noun

a five pound note

fiver

noun

a five pound note

fiver

noun

a five dollar bill

grand

noun

a thousand pounds, or a thousand dollars

greenback

noun

a US dollar

the grey pound

noun

the money spent by older people as a group

K

noun

one thousand pounds, or one thousand dollars

monkey

noun

an informal word for £500

the pink pound

noun

the money spent by gay people as a group

quid

noun

a pound in money

smacker

noun

a pound or a dollar

tenner

noun

ten pounds

vocal fry

a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence

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dray

a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer

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conflict mineral

a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons

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