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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Italian American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia . administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy.
Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks , spondoolicks , spondulacks , spondulics , and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant.
The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.
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 ; Conto – Brazilian Real; Pau – Brazilian Real; Pila – Brazilian Real
The following is a list of slangthat is used or popularized by Generation Z(Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [1][2]Ease of communication with the internetfacilitated the rapid proliferation of Gen Z slang.
Anda. An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari. A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız.
So we decided to dig up some of our favorite vintage slang words and phrases that, we think you'll agree, deserve a comeback. 1. Giggle water. Used to describe: Any alcoholic drink, liquor or ...