five-spot

Half a tenner

A five-spot is a five-dollar bill: Can you lend me a five-spot until payday?

The term extends to anything marked with five, particularly a playing card or domino showing five pips.

In older slang, a five-spot could also mean a five-year prison sentence.

bill

fiver

Slang five-dollar note

banknote · greenback · dollar · money · denomination · note · tender · buck · paper · wallet

numeral

quintet

Group of five

pentad · quint · odd number · prime · digit · integer · counting · tally · Roman numeral · handful

flower

baby blue eyes

Pale-petaled California wildflower

California native · garden · pollination · nectar · annual · seedling · blue flower · meadow · pollinator · honeybee

dice

dots

Small circular marks

pattern · four corners · Yahtzee · craps · backgammon · board game · lucky roll

prison

sentence

Complete thought, grammatically

bid · incarceration · lockup · hard time · jail · penitentiary · conviction · parole

Opposites
monetary denomination

five-spotsawbuck

Ten bucks, informally

ten-spot · single · grand · Benjamin · deuce

prison sentence length

five-spotdime

U.S. ten-cent coin

ten-spot · life sentence · quarter · deuce · life

Family

five, spot, fives, spots, spotted, spotting, spotter, spotty, fifth

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G