Welcome to the Slangpedia entry on “money”!🤑💰💸Here you’ll find a bunch of slang words for “money”, along with slang which is more generally related to the topic of having money. Without further ado, here’s our list of slang words for “money”:
- Bread or Dough: any amount of money. Usually in reference to money made for livelihood.
- Usage: “He’s bringing in the bread for his family.”
- origin: Shortened form of “bread and honey”, which is Cockney rhyming slang for money.
- Money roll: A large number of bills formed into a roll or any large sum of money.
- Usage: “The lady pulled a bill from her money roll and gave it to the clerk.”
- origin: Referring to coin rolls used in banks.
- Cabbage: money, especially paper money. allegedly made famous by a Comcast commercial.
- Usage: “Save some cabbage by ordering Comcast today!”
- origin: Originates from the green color of American paper money.
- Moola (or Moolah): A slang term for “money”.
- Usage: “we dropped some serious moola on that home theater system”
- origin: This word was supposedly coined in the United States around 1920, but beyond that its origin is a mystery.
- Bucks: the plural of a buck, meaning one dollar.
- Usage: “Last pay I got a couple thousand bucks!”
- origin: Perhaps a reference to buckskins, which were once used as currency.
- Cheese or Cheddar: Slang for money. Used a lot in todays rap culture.
- Usage: “I would invest in those stocks, but I lost all my cheddar in Vegas!”
- origin: Derived from the fact Americans on welfare (after the Second World War) used to receive cheese as part of their benefits.
- Skrilla: Meaning money.
- Usage: “I’m gonna go grab my skrilla so I can buy this kind fellow a drink”
- origin: The term “Skrilla” was coined by E-40 and re-popularized by Kodak Black in 2015, when he released his single “Skrilla”.
- Racks: Used in reference to multiples of thousands of dollars.
- Usage: “I need about three racks to put down on a car”
- origin: Most likely rap culture, though specifics are unknown.
- Stack: One thousand dollars.
- Usage: “I’m taking this stack to LA to blow it all next week.”
- origin: Most likely rap culture, though specifics are unknown.
- Benjamins: a US one-hundred-dollar bill
- Usage: “he keeps his life savings in neat stacks of Benjamins in a closet by his bed”
- origin: Reference to the U.S $100 dollar bill that uses a picture of Benjamin Franklin.
- Fivers or Tenners: Five-dollar or ten-dollar bills
- Usage: “Could you shout me a tenner for the pizza?”
- origin: In cockney rhyming slang, five pounds can also be referred to as a “deep sea diver”, rhythming with fiver.
- Bones: Used to replace the word dollars.
- Usage: “That’ll run you up 10 bones, sir.”
- origin: “Bones” for dollars goes back to 1896, though the origin of why or how this link was made isn’t clear.
- Ones: One dollar notes.
- Usage: “I’ve got all the ones I’ll need for tonight.”
- origin: A shortened term to refer to one dollar bills, no specific known origin.
- Coinage: refers to metal money, or coins.
- Usage: “My friend is so cheap. Whatever money I lend him, he’ll always pay me back in coinage.”
- origin: Unknown
- Loot: Most commonly referring to stolen money or valuables.
- Usage: “Look at all this loot we got from that house down the road”
- origin: Most likely an abbreviation from the word Lootics, a term in India to describe a group of horsemen, who plunder and lay waste the country.
- Green: Meaning money in general.
- Usage: “After this job I’ll have more green than I’ll know what to do with.”
- origin: First use is unknown though referring to U.S paper money that is the color green.
That’s it for our list of slang words for “money”. Did we miss any “drunk” synonyms? Please let us know in the form below! 👍😊