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greenback
noun- a one-dollar note US, 1862
- The only relic of their brief courtship is a postcard photograph of them taken in Las Vegas in 1956 at the Horseshoe Club and Casino in front of the club’s landmark, a giant horeshoe containing a million dollars in greenbacks. — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 26, 1993
- a one-pound note UK, 1961
A green-coloured banknote, first issued in 1917, the colour remained despite diminishing size and value, except for the period 1940–1948 when it was blue, until 1988 when it ceased to be legal tender. Sometimes shortened to “greenie”. - [A] brutal lunge at the greenies in your wallet. — Time Out, 9 May 1980
- an Australian one-pound note AUSTRALIA, 1919
Fell out of use after the introduction of decimal currency in 1966. - He slid one of the greenbacks across to Bruno[.] — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 34, 1969
- in surfing, a swell that has not broken US
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 117, 1963
- an implement for re-railing a train carriage or engine US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 263, 1946
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