c-note
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See also: c note
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
(banknote): From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.
Noun
- (US, informal) A one-hundred dollar banknote.
- 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
- 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.
- (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
Synonyms
- ($100 banknote): Benjamin
See also
References
- “C-note n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present