Kilobuck

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thousand dollars. informal, plural-normally

    "Of course such a leak detector, responsive to a single element, is simpler, more compact, and less expensive than the full-fledged mass spectroscope, which is about the size of a pipe-organ console and costs tens of kilobucks."

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"Of course such a leak detector, responsive to a single element, is simpler, more compact, and less expensive than the full-fledged mass spectroscope, which is about the size of a pipe-organ console and costs tens of kilobucks."

Etymology

From kilo- + buck.

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