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Grant
noun
a fifty-dollar note US
From the engraving of Ulysses S. Grant, a distinguished general and less-than-distinguished president, on the note.- With shaking fingers she showed Bernie two new crisp fifty-dollar bills tucked into the lining of her glove. New bills always seemed to have such a lovely pale green color, apple-green. “Real U.S. Grants, baby,” she told him[.] — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 181, 1961
- “I see you again,” Slick had told her, “it better be behind a pile of dead Presidents. Take a load of Jacksons and Grants get you off my shit list, girl.” — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 181, 1977
- There were twenty fifty-dollar bills. Nice new crisp U.S. Grants. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 42, 1981
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