bill

Related to bill: Bill Clinton, Bill of Rights, Billa

bill

slang A note of paper currency; a (dollar) bill. Usually used in plural constructions. Primarily heard in US. Any chance you could loan me a few bills so I can buy something for lunch? She handed me some bills and told me to go buy myself a sandwich.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bill

verb
See billie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) gay as a three-dollar bill
  • (as) phony as a three-dollar bill
  • (as) queer as a three-dollar bill
  • (Bill) Cosby sweater
  • a clean bill of health
  • a whale of a
  • as phony as a three-dollar bill
  • as queer as a three-dollar bill
  • be sold a bill of goods
  • bill
  • bill (one) for (something)
  • bill and coo
  • bill for
  • bill of goods
  • bill of health
  • billie
  • bulk bill
  • Can I/we have the bill?
  • Check, please
  • Christmas tree bill
  • clean bill of health
  • clean bill of health, to have a/be given a
  • double bill
  • double feature
  • fill the bill
  • fill the bill, to
  • fit the bill
  • foot the bill
  • friend of Bill W.
  • head the bill
  • head/top the bill
  • on (one's) bill
  • pad the bill
  • pay the bills
  • pay the water bill
  • phonier than a three-dollar bill
  • phony as a three-dollar bill
  • pick up
  • pick up the bill
  • queer as a three-dollar bill
  • queerer than a three-dollar bill
  • sell (one) a bill of goods
  • sell a bill of goods
  • sell someone a bill of goods
  • sell someone a bill of goods, to
  • the Old Bill
  • top the bill
References in classic literature
But when he emerged in Bill Totts' clothes he was another creature.
So thoroughly was Bill Totts himself, so thoroughly a workman, a genuine denizen of South of the Slot, that he was as class- conscious as the average of his kind, and his hatred for a scab even exceeded that of the average loyal union man.
Bill's knowledge of the great republic across the sea was at this period of his life a little sketchy.
'What's the trouble, Bill?' he inquired, when he had deposited his lordship in a corner of the reading-room, which he had selected because silence was compulsory there, thus rendering it possible for two men to hear each other speak.
"Well," said he, "my mate Bill would be called the captain, as like as not.
And when I had pointed out the rock and told him how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and answered a few other questions, "Ah," said he, "this'll be as good as drink to my mate Bill."
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself `This is Bill,' she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
Bill can tell me who the different men are and if I know he's waiting for me outside in the buggy, it will keep me from being scared." And her young cousin, only too pleased with the proposed arrangement, chimed in with: "That's the stuff, Rose.
Tough Bill's fare was seldom extravagant, and you rose from his table almost as hungry as you sat down, but for some days they had good reason to regret it.
And now it's up to Bill to say something after your dandy spiel."
Sympathy with the miserable victim and anticipations of similar deceptions for themselves, their sisters, and their daughters, made them now regard the Colour Bill in an entirely new aspect.
" Bill stopped for a moment, in order that his words might gain greater significance.
"When they got to us, and Buffalo Bill saw the child lying there so white, he said, 'My God!' and the sound of his voice brought her to herself, and she gave a little cry of pleasure and struggled to get up, but couldn't, and the soldiers gathered her up like the tenderest women, and their eyes were wet and they were not ashamed, when they saw her arm dangling; and so were Buffalo Bill's, and when they laid her in his arms he said, 'My darling, how does this come?' and she said, 'We came to save you, but I was tired, and couldn't keep awake, and fell off and hurt myself, and couldn't get on again.' 'You came to save me, you dear little rat?
It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince.
'About the crib at Chertsey, Bill?' said the Jew, drawing his chair forward, and speaking in a very low voice.