sawbucks
Bills with Hamilton
Sawbucks is informal American slang for ten-dollar bills.
The term comes from the X-shaped frame used to hold wood for sawing, which resembles the Roman numeral X (ten).
He pulled out a couple of sawbucks and paid cash.
The singular sawbuck can also refer to the sawhorse itself.
tenners
Slang for $10 bills
- tensGroups of a dozen minus two
- greenbacksUS paper currency
- bucksMale deer, or dollars
dough · cash · money · bills · notes · bread · moola · cheddar · scratch · loot
denomination value
sawbucksBenjamins
Slang for hundred-dollar bills
pennies · pocket change · small change · chump change · singles