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The $10
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The sawbuck is a ten dollar bill. Break down the change anyway you want.
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A ten dollar bill is known as a "sawbuck." Early tens had a Roman numeral X, which was thought to resemble a carpenter's sawhorse, or sawbuck, as it was also known. A twenty dollar bill is often called a "Double Sawbuck."
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A sawbuck is worth 10 dollars. It got its name from the carpentry tool we call a work horse. Its legs resembled an X which is 10 in Roman Numerals.
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"Sawbuck" is slang for a $10 bill. The term originated from the X-shaped stand used to hold wood for sawing, resembling the Roman numeral for 10, "X".
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Double sawbuck
[Sawbuck is slang for $10]
Not in America; I have never heard that used and I've lived in 7 states across the nation. In America $20.00 might be called "twenty bucks," "twenty big ones," or, if you're referring to the bill itself, "a twenty."
Another slang term for a $20 bill is a "Jackson" in reference to the man who is displayed on it. "Double sawbuck" is an antiquated term that has not been used for decades.
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Early $10 bills had the Roman numeral X (ten) as one indicator of their denomination. The form of the X resembled a carpenter's sawbuck, a kind of platform that's used to hold logs and other round pieces of wood for sawing.
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Some examples :
amok, amuck
awestruck
kapok
sawbuck
unstuck
woodchuck
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Kugelmass pays Persky a "double sawbuck" equivalent to twenty dollars per visit.
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Sawbuck: A sawbuck is typically another name for a sawhorse; in particular one which, at each end, has a crossed pair of legs. It is also slang for a ten-dollar bill as older versions of this particular bill incorporated "X", which is the Roman numeral for the number ten. The slang term came into use as the numeral resembles the end of a sawhorse.
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"Sawbuck" is both a carpentry tool and a slang term for a $10 bill.
There's nothing on a modern $10 bill that would lead to that nickname so it's no longer commonly used. In fact, most people use it with no idea where it orignated! In fact it dates back to the 19th century when various $10 bill designs included a prominent letter X which is the Roman numeral for 10. The Xs tended to look like an end-on view of a sawbuck - the carpenter's brace that's used to support wood for sawing - and the name stuck.
It's a bit like the term "two bits" for a quarter. That's a relic of the early days of American coinage when Spanish 8-reales coins were also in use alongside dollars. Each eighth was called a "bit", so a quarter was "two bits".
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Most bills are commonly called by their denominations, e.g. "a one", "a twenty", etc. but there are nicknames:
- $1 - "buck", possibly from the old use of animal hides as a quasi-currency; occasionally "clam", possibly for the same use of clamshells
- $2 - "deuce", from the French "deux" (two); occasionally "Toms" for Thomas Jefferson
- $5 - rarely nicknamed but sometimes "fin" from the Yiddish word for five
- $10 - "sawbuck", from an early design with the Roman numeral X that looked like a carpenter's sawbuck
- $20 - rarely, "double sawbuck", or "Jackson", for the President currently on the bill (pending a possible redesign)
- $50 - rarely nicknamed
- $100 - "Benjamins", because they carry a picture of Benjamin Franklin; also "C-note" for the Roman numeral equivalent of 100
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Ten dollars . A sawbuck is ten bucks. People would saw wood on one or two frames that looked like an X (ten). The bill also had the X (ten) on it.
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chuck, cluck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, ruck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck • reed buck • sawbuck • bush buck • •
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The word buck - possibly an abbreviation of buckskin or buckarooney, an intrinsic "currency" for trade with American Indians known since 1746 - has been recorded since 1856 and is widely used as a synonym for the dollars of many countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States and also for rupees in India and Pakistan.
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One wonders whether "buck" might not have been derived from "sawbuck" by the logic of "A sawbuck is ten dollars, so one dollar must be just 'a buck'." Hey, it's not impossible.
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Because twenty in Roman numerals is 'XX', the $20 note is (very infrequently) known as a 'Double Sawbuck', from the device for holding rough wood while it is being sawn which is shaped like an 'X'.
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A sawbuck is a device for holding rough wood so that it may be sawn into pieces of length usable in a stove or fireplace. Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of two "X" forms, one at each end, which are stabilized by a central piece. The stock to be cut is placed in the upward facing "V"s of the end pieces where it may then be sawn.
Sawbuck is also slang for a U.S. ten dollar bill as well as ten dollars worth of marijuana. The term may derive from the fact that older versions of the bill included the roman numeral for ten, "X", which resembles one of the ends of the wood supporting device described above; however, this is somewhat problematic because the first known use of sawbuck in print refers to the money and not the wood device. This name was most common in the days of large-sized notes. In poker terminology, "sawski" refers to a sawbuck.
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C-note, Benjamin ($100), Jackson, twankie, double sawbuck ($20), sawbuck ($10), fin ($5), buck ($1)
American - General
Bucks, bills, dollas, cash, paper, greenbacks, moolah, scratch, scrip (usually not legal tender), green, long green, cabbage, kale, lettuce, loot, dough, potatoes (usually pronounced puhtaytuhs), bread, bacon, clams, one large ($100), Fin (Five) Cheese, Cheddar. dead presidents
British
Dosh (cash/money), wonger (money, chiefly heard in London)
Australian
Coin, Shrapnel,
Chinese
dayang, chaopiao, rmb, piaozi
Spanish
billuya, plata, billete, palos, lana, billegas. . .
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beatnik, bedrock, berserk, bespeak, bethink, bulwark, catwalk, cowlick, earmark, haddock, hammock, hassock, haycock, hemlock, henpeck, legwork, midweek, mistook, mollusk, network, obelisk, outback, ransack, recheck, redneck, restock, rethink, rollick, seasick, spelunk, sawbuck, skylark
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These are only worth $10 at the main cage in Don Laughlin's Casino. They are gaming tokens, not real money and as such, despite some people trying to create value that is not there, they are only good at Don's Casino. Sorry.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern SA---C-. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
sambuca
sawbuck
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A Benjamin.
Here in Boston we would call it a (C) note. C is the Roman numeral for 100.
They're also known as Benjamins because they carry a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern -AW--C-. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter A and 3rd letter W and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
bawcock
dawcock
hawbuck
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern SA---CK. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 6th letter C and 7th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern -A--UC-. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter A and 5th letter U and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
capouch
farruca
hawbuck
pachuco
sambuca
sawbuck
waesuck
zambuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern -AWBU--. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter A and 3rd letter W and 4th letter B and 5th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are:
hawbuck
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern SAWB---. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 3rd letter W and 4th letter B. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbill
sawbuck
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What in the world does THAT mean? I'm gonna take a SWAG (silly wild-ass guess) at that. One dollar equals 100 cents, so you could say that a penny is a centidollar, because a penny represents one hundredth of a dollar. A dollar is also one tenth of a ten-dollar bill, so you could say that it is a decisawbuck. (Sawbuck is slang for a 10-dollar bill.)
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More information is needed. Please post a new, separate question with the bill's date and whether is was issued by the Federal Government or by a private bank. If it's from a private bank, include the bank's name.
The X's of course are the Roman numeral for 10. Their resemblance to a sawbuck, a carpenter's device for holding large pieces of wood, earned these bills the nickname of "sawbucks".
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 7 words with the pattern ---BUC-. That is, seven letter words with 4th letter B and 5th letter U and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
hawbuck
jumbuck
kebbuck
roebuck
sambuca
sawbuck
zambuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 7 words with the pattern S--BU--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 4th letter B and 5th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are:
sacbuts
sagbuts
sambuca
sambuke
samburs
sawbuck
sunburn
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern S-WBU--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 3rd letter W and 4th letter B and 5th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern S---UCK. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 5th letter U and 6th letter C and 7th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
schmuck
schtuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern S-W--CK. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 3rd letter W and 6th letter C and 7th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
sowback
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern SAW-UC-. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 3rd letter W and 5th letter U and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern SAWBU--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 3rd letter W and 4th letter B and 5th letter U. In alphabetical order, they are:
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 16 words with the pattern SA-B---. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter S and 2nd letter A and 4th letter B. In alphabetical order, they are:
sabbath
sabbats
sabbing
sacbuts
sagbuts
salband
sambaed
sambals
sambars
sambhar
sambhur
sambuca
sambuke
samburs
sawbill
sawbuck
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 26 words with the pattern ---B-CK. That is, seven letter words with 4th letter B and 6th letter C and 7th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are:
buyback
cutback
dieback
fatback
finback
flyback
hawbuck
hogback
jumbuck
kebbock
kebbuck
layback
limbeck
outback
payback
redback
roebuck
runback
sawbuck
setback
sowback
sunback
tieback
tomback
wetback
zambuck
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One day, during a well-deserved break from their usual form of mutual recreation,
Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice get to talking, and the discussion turns to the money in
their pockets.
They're astonished to discover that each of them is carrying exactly the same amount
of money. Then, playing mind games with this new-found knowledge, they calculate
that if they put all of their money in one pot in the middle of the bed, and entice Sam
to come join them and toss an additional sawbuck ($10) into the pot, the pot will then
have a cool $98 dollars in it ... enough to call Room Service and order pizza, wine, and
chocolate chip cookies for everyone.
How much do Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice each have in their pocket now ?
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 43 words with the pattern ----UC-. That is, seven letter words with 5th letter U and 6th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:
bestuck
bonducs
capouch
cleruch
conduce
conduct
debauch
debouch
farruca
geoduck
gweduck
gweducs
hawbuck
heyduck
jumbuck
kebbuck
lettuce
misluck
muclucs
nonsuch
oviduct
pachuco
potluck
prepuce
produce
product
retouch
roebuck
sambuca
sawbuck
schmuck
schtuck
scrauch
subduce
subduct
traduce
tussuck
unstuck
upchuck
verruca
viaduct
waesuck
zambuck
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Many but not all current US coins and bills have nicknames. Some date back to Colonial or even pre-Colonial days; many people no longer are even aware where the names come from!
Current coins
- 1 cent - "penny", after the roughly equivalent British coin it replaced.
- 5 cents - "nickel", even though it's mostly copper; comes from an early use of the metal as a replacement for its predecessor, the silver half-dime.
- 10 cents - "dime", but a true currency unit rather than a nickname; it's a holdover from a system proposed in the 18th century having 6 currency units rather than just cents and dollars.
- 25 cents - "quarter" because it's 1/4 of a dollar
- 50 cents - "half", "half a buck"
- $1 - "buck" (see below), sometimes "Sac" because some of the coins depict Sacajawea
Current bills
Bills are often referred to simply by their denominations - "a one", "a ten", etc. or occasionally by the name of the person pictured. Other names are
- $1 - "buck", possibly from the old use of animal hides as a quasi-currency; occasionally "clam", possibly for the same use of clamshells
- $2 - "deuce", from the French "deux" (two); occasionally "Toms" for Thomas Jefferson
- $5 - rarely nicknamed but sometimes "fin" from the Yiddish word for five
- $10 - "sawbuck", from an early design with the Roman numeral X that looked like a carpenter's sawbuck
- $20 - rarely, "double sawbuck", or "Jackson", for the President currently on the bill (pending a possible redesign)
- $50 - rarely nicknamed
- $100 - "Benjamins", because they carry a picture of Benjamin Franklin; also "C-note" for the Roman numeral equivalent of 100
Obsolete coins and bills had many varieties and nicknames. Among others:
- Silver half-dime - "fish scale" because of its small size and silver color
- Silver 3-cent piece - also "fish scale" for the same reason; sometimes "trime", a blending of the prefix "tri" for 3 and the word "dime"
- 20-cent piece - "double dime"
- $4 gold piece - "Stella"
- $10 gold piece - "eagle"; like "dime" not really a nickname but another actual currency unit inherited from that proposed 6-unit coinage system
- $2.50, $5.00, and $20.00 gold pieces - "quarter eagle", "half eagle", and "double eagle"
- $1000 bill - "Grand", "G-note", or "Kilo"
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The general nickname is "greenbacks" because green ink is used for most of the image on each denomination's reverse side.
In common speech, most individual denominations are simply referred to by their value - a one, a five, a ten, etc. Nicknames for specific denominations aren't commonly used, with one exception - the $100 bill is often called a "Benjamin" because it carries a picture of statesman, inventor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
These other nicknames exist but most are very old-fashioned and are rarely used:
$2: deuce
$5: fin
$10: sawbuck (from a very old design with the Roman numeral X, resembling a crossbuck)
$100: C-note (again, from a Roman numeral)
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Thomas Jefferson would certainly be dismayed by the amount of power concentrated in the federal government.
Madison would be disappointed in how powerful the executive branch has become, and in how easily the President can get the country into a war.
Adams would be horrified at the size and expense of a standing Army and Navy of more than one million.
Washington would fall over dead over the intensity of party politics. He often expressed his desire that political parties would never be seen in the United States.
Monroe would rise up from his grave and fall back again to see how much his doctrines have been altered; the United States involved in World Wars and revolutions and border squabbles around the world.
Alexander Hamilton would erase his portrait from the sawbuck if he knew how deeply in debt our country is today.
Benjamin Franklin would be shocked at how wasteful our society is. A penny saved is a penny earned. Most of us just leave our pennies in a jar or leave them on the counter at the coffee shop.
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