500 Bucks
 

Is there an American slang term for $500?

(for example 500 quid in UK is a monkey)

A nickel

nickers.

not commonly, no. A nickel, which is a five cent coin, when used as slang would to me signify five dollars.

Guess I'm just cheap. :)

I think he's just trying to confuse a poor foreigner....the big meanie.

ah well. I wrote the poem without, thanks. but I'd still be interested to know...

Half a grand

thanks. No terminology of it's own then.... I'm guessing you'd be the expert -the bookies is where you find a lot of these terms in regular usage in the UK. Well that and borrowing from a friend..... :lol:

Bills are sometimes referred to by the person on the bill. (E.g. a $100 bill is called a Franklin.)

William McKinley is on the $500 bill.

in my business, we're all about the monitary slang.

a buck = $100
a buck and a cooter = $125
a buck and a hay = $150
a deuce = $200
a nickel= $500
a dime = $1000
a wiz or wizzle = $1000 (derivitive form of 'G' for Grand becomes Gee Wiz shortened to wiz)
a 'cooter' or a quarter = $2500
a pair of nickels = $5500


in reference to profit on a deal, $100 is referred to as a pound. a 20 pound deal has $2000 profit.

a five is a 'fin'

in general then, the slang term depends on the general dollar range of the item in question then. I hear similar terms to LJs used in the real estate field.

thanks. LJ, I wondered if it was all a matter of zeros there. Unfortunately in the context I want, a nickel would be more likely to be 5c and not very impressive :lol: i found that term fin when I was googling for an answer.

HLJ I wondered about the names on the bills -does that continue up at high as the $500. Would anyone really know what I was talking about if I said a mckinley?

yeah, a fin and a sawbuck (a ten?), but those slang terms date back to the last century (or the one before that) and noone I know uses them in daily speech.

here's a good site for British monetary slang

http://www.businessballs.com/moneysl...0and%20origins

Serious North American Gamblers use Bookies from England anyways.
Neither sides slangs are used... its all very straight forward.

If I were you, I'd just use terms that everyone comprehends.
You can't play around with amounts of money just to use slang.
It gives someone an excuse to do whatever profits them.
Don't trust anyone.