C-note

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote. US, informal

    "If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred."

  2. 2
    a United States bill worth 100 dollars wordnet

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benjaminccentcenturycopperdime

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"If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred."

Etymology

From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.

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