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Greenback

noun

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank). Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note.

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"Greenback" Quotes from Famous Books

... And when the debt gigantic which was made To war our fathers till they bit the dust, Matured, our party instinct did invent A method to repudiate the claim By paying greenback printed nice and clean, But which with gold would never be redeemed. Alas! those Yankee soldiers called the bluff And once again encompassed our defeat. While principles unchanging we declare, Yet what, indeed, is it that changeth ...

— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... Thieves to permit no man to outbid them. Perhaps Mr. Gibney would be satisfied with a fair day's profit without troubling himself to hamper the Forty Thieves and interfere with their combination, and with the words, the king surreptitiously slipped Mr. Gibney a fifty-dollar greenback. ...

— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

Words linked to "Greenback" : folding money, c-note, hundred dollar bill, clam, ten dollar bill, silver certificate, five dollar bill, dollar bill, government note, dollar, paper money, fifty dollar bill, paper currency, one dollar bill, buck, Federal Reserve note, twenty dollar bill, fifty, five-spot, tenner, twenty, two dollar bill, fiver