billy

billie

slang A note of paper currency; a (dollar) bill. Can also be spelled "billy." Any chance you can loan me a few billies so I can buy something for lunch?

like billyo

Very aggressively, vigorously, or enthusiastically. Primarily heard in UK. We've been working like billyo all month to get this finished in time. During the economic boom, people spent money on credit like billyo, with no regard for how they'd pay it all back.
See also: like

like billy-o(h)

Very aggressively, vigorously, or enthusiastically. Primarily heard in UK. We've been working like billy-o all month to get this finished in time. During the economic boom, people spent money on credit like billy-oh, with no regard for how they'd pay it all back.
See also: like
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

like billyo

or

like billy-oh

INFORMAL
If someone is doing something or something is happening like billyo or like billy-oh, it is being done or happening to a great degree and with a lot of energy. They were swinging their partners around like billyo. It is still very wet and so everything is growing like billy-oh
See also: like
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

like billy-o

very much, hard, or strongly. British informal
1995 John Banville Athena This skin tone is the effect of cigarettes, I suspect, for she is a great smoker…going at the fags like billy-o.
See also: like
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

like ˈbilly-o

(British English, informal) very much or very enthusiastically: They worked like billy-o to get it finished on time.
See also: like
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

billie

and bill(y) (ˈbɪli)
n. paper money; a bill. Do you have any billies on you? Lend me a billy or two.

billy

verb
See billie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • billie
  • blivit
  • good, bad, or indifferent
  • benies
  • The Land of Opportunity
  • beauhunk
  • bohunk
  • kicken
  • kickin’
  • joybox
References in periodicals archive
Miss Galvin, who was pregnant with the couple's baby at the time, had been in a relationship with Billy for two-anda-half years, the court heard.
And despite world-renowned Great Ormond Street specialist Professor Helen Cross advising that Billy should be prescribed the medicine, she has had no response from the Trust.
When he learned of McNeill's passing the moment was brought back to his mind and Gough insisted the incident summed up Big Billy to a tee.
Fury's Tornados played behind rock star Billy Fury from 1969 through to his sad, early death in 1983 at just 42.
Andrew Hampson said: "In total shock, as Billy Butler is Radio Merseyside.
Andrew Hampson said: "In total shock as Billy butler is Radio Merseyside.
Billy enjoyed his day out very much, being well behaved in the car, good on the lead during the walk and came back tired but happy.
Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) initially told Billy (Jason Thompson) (https://www.ibtimes.com/young-restless-spoilers-will-billy-risk-losing-everything-2714905) she was okay with his gambling at a high-stakes poker game in Las Vegas, even though she had concerns.
How Billy came to find himself alone on the busy 50mph road last year is just the latest tragic chapter of a life lived in the shadowy hinterland of a system that failed him.
As Billy approached, he noticed two of the glazed door panels had been replaced with hardboard.
Anupdate on his health was given by long-time friend Sir Michael Parkinson, who told of the "sad and awkward" moment that Billy struggled to remember him over dinner.
She alleges one doctor approached her with a syringe driver to pump morphine into little Billy and told her it "would all be over in a moment".
3 (ANI): Frank Graham, the son of Late Rev Billy Graham, on Friday conducted a funeral service for his father at the Billy Graham library, situated at Charlotte in North Carolina.
In a series of letters addressed to God, Billy Wild tells his story.
Shortly before his death, William, known to his friends and family as Billy, instructed lawyers at Irwin Mitchell to investigate where he had been exposed to the harmful dust that had caused him to fall ill.