The slang term 'Monkey' is used for what sum of money?
"in 2016), and ""bullseye"" for £50 (from the points value of the bullseye on a darts board) . £5 is called a ""fiver"". A ""tenner"" is £10. A ""Darwin"" also refers to a £10 note, due to the image of Charles Darwin on the back. £20 is commonly referred to as a “score”. A ""pony"" equals £25. A ""bullseye"" is £50. £100 is commonly referred to as a ""ton"" e.g. £400 would be called 4 ton. Also, a ""century"" or a ""bill"" are also used as £100 (e.g. £300 would be three bills). A ""monkey"" is £500. £1,000 is commonly"
"at Matins on the 25th of the month. The 25th March was also the date on which debts were traditionally settled, on which date one would have to ""pony up"" or ""pony out"". It is easy to see how slang for a payment on the 25th could develop into a payment of 25 pounds The term ""monkey"" originally meant a mortgage in working class slang across large parts of the UK. A ""monkey on the house"" or simply a ""monkey"" was a mortgage. At that time 500 pounds was a huge sum of money to the poor people who predominantly"
"is not so named because it is a handy thing to monkey with, or for any kindred reason. ""Monkey"" is not its name at all, Charles Moncky, the inventor of it, sold his patent for $5000, and invested the money in a house in Williamsburg, Kings County, where he now lives. Although this story was refuted by historical and patent research in the late nineteenth century, it appears to have been inspired by a real person. Charles Monk (not Moncky) lived in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the 1880s where he made and sold moulder's tools, not mechanics' tools"
"phrase is (); in financial terms, where integer values in cents exist, e.g., HK$6.75, the phrase is (; fives in cents is normally expressed as “half”, unless followed by another five, such as 55 cents when preceded by a dollar value); $7.08 is (). In Hong Kong, the following are slang terms used to refer to various amounts of money: Some of these terms are also used by overseas Chinese to refer their local currency. A slang term in English sometimes used for the Hong Kong dollar is ""Honkie"". In 1863, 1-mil (-cent), 1-cent and 10-cent coins were introduced, followed"
"(""piece"") or ""kosar'"" (""mower""). Slang words for greater amounts of money originate from the 1990s and the Russian Civil War eras, when the ruble was suffering hyperinflation. The most common are ""limon"" (lemon) for a million rubles and ""arbuz"" (watermelon) for a billion rubles. South African slang for various amounts of money borrows many terms from the rest of the English speaking world, such as the word ""grand"" when referring to R1,000. Other words are unique to South Africa, such as the term ""choc"" when referring to a R20 note. The slang word for money is 'kroon'. One ""bar"" refers"
"to an amount of R1,000,000. Among the English speaking communities ""Bucks"" is commonly used to refer to Rands (South African Currency). Less commonly used is the Afrikaans slang for Rands which is ""Bokke"", the plural of Bok; The Afrikaans word for antelope (""Bucks"" being the English equivalent), derived from the Springbok image on the R 1 coin. e.g. R 100 = 100 Bucks/Bokke, R 5 = 5 Bucks/Bokke etc. In Sweden money in general is colloquially referred to by the words ""stålar"", ""deg"" (""dough"") or ""klöver"" (""clover"") and the English loanword ""cash"". Slang terms for the Swedish krona in use"
"use a ""Monopoly""-specific currency symbol of a double struck-through capital letter M, similar to the Won sign (₩) flipped upside-down. ""Monopoly money"" is also a derisive term used in multiple senses. The most common is by countries that have traditionally had monochromatic currency banknotes (such as the United States) to refer to countries that have colorful banknotes (such as Canada). This has been used in places such as the ""Weird Al"" Yankovic song ""Canadian Idiot"". It can also be used as a derisive term to refer to money not really worth anything, or at least not being used as if"
"used such slang and the only way to raise that amount of money would have been to mortgage the house. 500 pounds would have been about the average value of a London house at the time the term originated in the early 20th century according to the CPBS mortgage registers 1919-1922. However the true origin of these terms is uncertain. Another money slang word, """", which means £1, is thought to be connected to the American """". """", which describes an unspecified amount of money, may come from the Romany word for coal, ""wanga"". In 2005, Professor Sue Fox from"
"referred to as a ""bag"" (from the rhyming slang ""Bag of Sand""), e.g., £4,000 would be called 4 bags. A ""oner"" (one-er) has referred to various amounts from one shilling to a pound, to now meaning £100 or £1,000, and a ""big one"" denoting £1,000. A ""oncer"" referred particularly to a one-pound note, now defunct. It is also fairly common now in the UK to count backwards from these large denominations using the word ""down"", e.g. £380 might be ""four ton, 20 down"" in UK slang. Other rhyming slang expressions for particular quantities of money in the United Kingdom include:"
"Bang for the buck Bang for the buck is an idiom meaning the worth of one's money or exertion. The phrase originated from the slang usage of the words ""bang"" which means ""excitement"" and ""buck"" which means ""money"". Variations of the term include ""bang for your buck,"" ""bang for one's buck,"" ""more bang for the buck,"" ""bigger bang for the buck,"" and mixings of these. ""More bang for the buck"" was preceded by ""more bounce to the ounce"", an advertising slogan used in 1950 to market the carbonated soft drink Pepsi. The phrase ""bigger bang for the buck"" was notably"
"Bandar-log Bandar-log () is a term used in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" to describe the monkeys of the Seeonee jungle. In Hindi, ""Bandar"" means ""monkey"" and ""log"" means ""people"" – but can also be used for plurality hence the term simply refers to ""monkeys"". The term has also since come to refer to ""any body of irresponsible chatterers."" The Bandar-log feature most prominently in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"", where their scatterbrained anarchy causes them to be treated as pariahs by the rest of the jungle. Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan: ""We are great. We"
"Mind monkey Mind monkey or monkey mind, from Chinese ""xinyuan"" and Sino-Japanese ""shin'en"" 心猿 [lit. ""heart-/mind-monkey""], is a Buddhist term meaning ""unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable"". In addition to Buddhist writings, including Chan or Zen, Consciousness-only, Pure Land, and Shingon, this ""mind-monkey"" psychological metaphor was adopted in Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, poetry, drama, and literature. ""Mind-monkey"" occurs in two reversible four-character idioms with ""yima"" or ""iba"" 意馬 [lit. ""thought-/will-horse""], most frequently used in Chinese ""xinyuanyima"" 心猿意馬 and Japanese ""ibashin'en"" 意馬心猿. The ""Monkey King"" Sun Wukong in the ""Journey to the West"" personifies the mind-monkey. Note that much of"
"pronounce the new coins as ""pee"". Shortenings such as ""tuppence"" are now rarely heard, and terms such as ""tanner"" (the silver sixpence), which previously designated amounts of money, are no longer used. However, some slang terms, such as ""quid"" and ""bob"", survived from pre-decimal times. Amounts denominated in guineas (21s or £1.05) are reserved for specialist transactions, such as the sale of horses and some auctions. The public information campaign over the preceding two years helped, as did the trick of getting a rough conversion of new pence into old shillings and pence by simply doubling the number of new"
"Slang terms for money 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 single language community some of the slang terms vary across 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 (e.g., ""buck"" for a dollar or similar currency in various nations including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States). The five-cent coin is sometimes referred to as ""shrapnel"", or “shrappers,”"
"Monkey, a trickster figure said to have originated during slavery in the United States. The American literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote in ""The Signifying Monkey"" (1988) that signifyin' is ""a trope, in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony (the master tropes), and also hyperbole, litotes, and metalepsis. To this list we could easily add aporia, chiasmus, and catachresis, all of which are used in the ritual of Signifyin(g)."" Rudy Ray Moore, known as "" Dolemite"", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances. While Signifyin(g) is the"
"is often dropped when it is clear from context. E.g. ""He made three quid last year"" would mean ""He earned three million pounds"". ""They manage a hundred bucks"" means that they have assets of a hundred million US dollars. General terms include bucks, dough, bread, moolah, cheddar, paper, stash, Benjamin, Benji, loot, smackers, and simoleons. Outdated or rarely used terms include: bones, tamales, scratch, cheese, guap, lettuce, salad, scrilla, scrill, chips, cake, ducats, spondulix, and cabbage. The dollar has also been referred to as a ""bean"" or ""bone"" (e.g. twenty bones is equal to $20). U.S. coinage nicknames reflect their"
"delicacy"" and a ""must-eat"", and is commonly served grilled, boiled, or fried; monkey carcasses are highly-valued, and are worth between 20,000 and 40,000 francs. A ""Nairobi News"" reporter covering the 2015 All Africa Games in Brazzaville observed that ""residents scramble"" for monkey meat, but are not as fond of the meats of other primates including baboon and gibbon. Consuming monkey meat is a defining feature of the Bari people, who ""perceive the eating of monkey meat as a boundary between them and non-indigenous people""; in recent years, however, some Bari tribe members have shied away from the practice because of"
"Macaca (term) Macaca (feminine) and macaco (masculine) are the Portuguese words for ""monkey"" (compare English ""macaque""). In Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries, ""macaco"" (plural ""macacos"") is used as a racial slur against Black people. Similarly the word ""macaque"" was used as a racial slur by Belgians in their African colonies. The word is sometimes similarly used in English of dark-skinned people, pronounced or . According to Robert Edgerton, in the Belgian Congo, colonial whites called Africans ""macaques""—implying that they had lived in the trees until the Europeans arrived. The term ""sale macaque"" (filthy monkey) was occasionally used as an insult. In"
"Etymology Dictionary, the word ""monkey"" may originate in a German version of the ""Reynard the Fox"" fable, published circa 1580. In this version of the fable, a character named Moneke is the son of Martin the Ape. In English, no very clear distinction was originally made between ""ape"" and ""monkey""; thus the 1910 Encyclopædia Britannica entry for ""ape"" notes that it is either a synonym for ""monkey"" or is used to mean a tailless humanlike primate. Colloquially, the terms ""monkey"" and ""ape"" are widely used interchangeably. Also, a few monkey species have the word ""ape"" in their common name, such"
"when a caller unethically uses the national television audience to promote a stock for self-interest. If a caller rambles on about a stock, Cramer will lie down on the floor of the set with a pillow and blanket and act as if he is going to sleep. Other props include a box of Uncle Ben's Rice, with Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben Bernanke's picture, an audio version of ""Jim Cramer's Real Money"", a Louisville Slugger baseball bat, and pink ""Mad Money"" pigs. On the May 19, 2006 episode, Cramer had a monkey named Ka-ching make an appearance on"
"""Lady Godiva"" for a fiver (£5), or a ""Jacks"" - Jackson Five (extremely rare) and ""diver"" for pearl diver (common Glasgow usage). A ""Cockle"" is £10 - Cock and Hen — ten (also ""Ayrton"", from Ayrton Senna/Tenner). A ""Bobby"" is £20 - Bobby Moore (score). In London financial culture, a billion pounds or, more often, US dollars, is referred to as a 'yard'. This derives from the old British English word for a thousand million, a milliard, which has now been replaced by the 'short scale' name 'billion' from US English. The term 'million' for a million pounds or dollars"
"or a ""Borden"" (after its portrait of Prime Minister Robert Borden). $100.00 is also called an ""onion"" in gambling corners. Since Canadians and Americans both refer to their respective currencies as ""the dollar,"" and because the two countries tend to mingle both socially and in the media, there is a lot of overlap in slang terms for money. However, this usually only extends to terms that are not specific to one country or the other. For example, both Canadians and Americans refer to a $100 note as a ""C-note"", but an American might refer to it as a ""Benjamin"", after"
"Moke (slang) Moke is a term used in the British Isles as slang for ""donkey"". In Australia it refers to a nag or inferior horse, and is employed by residents of the Hawaiian Islands in similar fashion as the British to derogatorily describe segments of the local Polynesian population. In practice, the word ""moke"" is similar to ""redneck"", as it is only used to describe a certain personality type, instead of an entire ethnic group. John William's ""A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands"" (1832) is one of the earliest records of Mokes in literature. Williams, a"
"Spondulix 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. There are two views on the origin of the word. The most likely is from the Greek ""spondulox"", which refers to a type of seashell from bivalves of the genus ""Spondylus"". The ""Spondylus"" shell was used as neolithic jewelry and also as an early form of currency. There is global evidence of the importance of the spondylus shell. Archaeological evidence shows that people in Europe were trading the"
"Money mule A money mule, sometimes called a ""smurfer,"" is a person who transfers money acquired illegally (e.g., stolen) in person, through a courier service, or electronically, on behalf of others. Typically, the mule is paid for services with a small part of the money transferred. Money mules are often dupes recruited on-line for what they think is legitimate employment, not aware that the money they are transferring is the product of crime. The money is transferred from the mule's account to the scam operator, typically in another country. Similar techniques are used to transfer illegal merchandise. Mules recruited online"
"actual banknotes: Slang terms for money 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 single language community some of the slang terms vary across 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 (e.g., ""buck"" for a dollar or similar currency in various nations including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States). The five-cent coin is sometimes referred to as ""shrapnel"","
"and """"bones"""" in plural (e.g. """"twenty bones"""" is equal to $20). The newer designs, with portraits displayed in the main body of the obverse (rather than in cameo insets), upon paper color-coded by denomination, are sometimes referred to as """"bigface"""" notes or ""Monopoly money"". """"Piastre"""" was the original French word for the U.S. dollar, used for example in the French text of the Louisiana Purchase. Calling the dollar a piastre is still common among the speakers of Cajun French and New England French. Modern French uses ""dollar"" for this unit of currency as well. The term is still used as"
"Mumbai and in Bollywood movies) are 'peti' for a Lakh (Rs. 100,000) and 'khokha' for a Crore (Rs. 10,000,000.) and 'tijori' for 100 crores (Rs. 1,000,000,000.) Peti also means suitcase, which is the volume needed to carry a Lakh of currency notes. Tijori means a large safe or a cupboard, which would be the approximate space required to store that money in cash form. Due to the real estate boom in recent times, businessmen also use the terms '2CR' or '3CR' referring to two crores and three crores respectively. In Kenya there are about 42 different languages, which have different"
"Money bag A money bag (moneybag, bag of money, money sack, sack of money, bag of gold, gold bag, sack of gold, etc.) is a bag (normally with a drawstring) of money (or gold) used to hold and transport coins and banknotes from/to a mint, bank, ATM, vending machine, business, or other institution. Money bags are usually transported in an armored car or a money train and, in the past, via stagecoach. Crumillospongia is a genus of middle Cambrian sponge named after its similarity to a small leathery money purse, or ""crumilla"" (Latin for ""small, little purse""). According to the"
"of them weighing as much as the monkeys, to crack open the fruit to get to the nut inside. Young capuchins will watch this process to learn from the older, more experienced adults but it takes them 8 years to master this. The learning behavior of capuchins has been demonstrated to be directly linked to a reward rather than curiosity. In 2005, experiments were conducted on the ability of capuchins to use money. After several months of training, the monkeys began exhibiting behaviors considered to reflect understanding of the concept of a medium of exchange that were previously believed to"
"""Pengebingen"", respectively, and these have become a regular word in these languages for a large amount of money or cash. Russell W. Belk mentions the Money Bin in ""Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth"", where he remarks that Scrooge's ""childish fascination with money"", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the Money Bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain. Penelope Fritzer in the article ""Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron"" considers it possible for the Money Bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire. The Money Bin"
"sets; furs for uses ranging from coats to traditional costumes; and trophies. With the exception of bushmeat, which is used as a primary source of protein by some cultures, all of these uses of illegally obtained wildlife are trophies, driven by a desire to be seen as more affluent, adventurous, or successful than others. In many parts of Africa, the main demand for illegal wildlife comes from the consumption of bushmeat. Wild animals are a preferred as a source of protein and primates are considered a delicacy. It is believed that up to 40,000 monkeys are killed and eventually consumed"
"Dance Monkey Dance ""Dance, Monkey, Dance !"" is a popular expression in the United States. It describes the desire of a person to have another person or animal perform a trick or dance for their entertainment. It is generally considered demeaning, the person asked to perform the trick being devalued for satisfying this request. The first noted use of this expression was in 1967 in the movie ""The Cape Town Affair"". This movie, directed by Robert Webb, features two spies visiting South Africa. They stop in front of a street performer with a monkey. A little girl next to Claire"