counterfeit cash
Bogus paper money
Counterfeit cash is fake currency made to look like real money.
The phrase is slightly redundant—counterfeit already implies imitation for deceptive purposes, and cash already suggests currency—but it emphasizes the physical nature of the forgery: Police seized stacks of counterfeit cash from the basement printing operation.
- fakeNot the real thing
- funny moneyCounterfeit or worthless cash
- forgedMade by smithing, or faked
- marked billsCurrency with tracking features
- moneyCurrency for transactions
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- fakesfake, fakes, counterfeits, imitation, imitations
- counterfeitingfake money, fake bills, bogus bills, forged notes, forged banknotes
- crime toolscrowbar, lockpick, lockpicks, lock pick, lock picks
- dirty moneydirty money, ill-gotten gains, illicit funds, illicit gains, proceeds of crime
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