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Slangs are colloquial words or expressions that help us to understand colloquial English language better.

Los Slangs son expresiones coloquiales de uso automático en el idioma inglés.

After learning the following SLANGS, try to give them a continuous use in order to master them.

Discover and learn common slangs in American English by David Burke. Burke brought up in a multilingual household that's why he speaks different languages. SLANG MAN is a series of books by Burke.

1. BIZ SPEAK 1: https://pdfroom.com/books/the-slangman-guide-to-biz-speak-1-slangman-guides-to-biz-speak/JZOgZZongkb

2. STREET SPEAK 1: theslangmanguidetostreetspeak1.pdf

3. DIRTY ENGLISH: https://pdfroom.com/books/the-slangman-guide-to-dirty-english/PbG5wvOJ2q4

4. STREET TALK 1: https://pdfroom.com/books/street-talk-1-how-to-speak-and-understand-american-slang-v-1/PkdNL84z2Xr

5. HOW TO SPEAK BRIT: https://pdfroom.com/books/how-to-speak-brit-the-quintessential-guide-to-the-kings-english-cockney-slang-and-other-flummoxing-british-phrases/0YpgQK0n5Nz

6. EBONICS: https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/aave.html

Video:

Symphony In Slang

 

Do you understand his odd manner of speech?

1. Bank: money
2. Benjamins: a one-hundred-dollar bill (in reference to the portrait of Benjamin Franklin that distinguishes it)
3. Big ones: multiples of one thousand dollars
4. Bills: multiples of one hundred dollars
5. Bones: dollars (origin unknown)
6. Bread: money in general
7. Bucks: dollars 

8. Cabbage: paper money (from its color)
9. Cheddar (or chedda): money (origin unknown, but perhaps from the concept of cheese distributed by the government to welfare recipients)
10. Clams: dollars (perhaps from the onetime use of seashells as currency)
11. Coin: money, either paper or coinage
12-13. Cs (or C-notes): multiples of one hundred dollars (from the Roman symbol for “one hundred”)
14. Dead presidents: paper money (from the portraits of various former US presidents that usually distinguish bills of various denominations)
15. Dime: ten dollars (by multiplication of the value of the ten-cent coin)
16. Dough: money in general (akin to the usage of bread)
17-18. Doubles (or dubs): twenty-dollar bills
19. Ducats: money (from the Italian coin)
20. Fins: five-dollar bills (perhaps from the shared initial sound with fives)

21. Five-spots: five-dollar bills
22. Fivers: five-dollar bills
23. Folding stuff: paper money
24. Greenbacks: paper money (from the color of the ink)
25. Gs: thousand-dollar bills (an abbreviation for grand)
26. Grand: one thousand dollars (as in “three grand” for “three thousand dollars”)
27. Large: thousand-dollar bills
28. Lettuce: paper money (from its color)
29. Long green: paper money (from its shape and color)
30. Loot: money (originally denoted goods obtained illicitly or as the spoils of war)
31. Lucre: money or profit (from the biblical expression “filthy lucre,” meaning “ill-gained money”)
32. Moola (or moolah): money (origin unknown)
33. Nickel: five dollars (by multiplication of the value of the five-cent coin)
34. Ones: dollars (also, fives for “five-dollar bills,” tens for “ten-dollar bills,” and so on)
35. Quarter: twenty-five dollars (by multiplication of the value of the twenty-five-cent coin)
36. Sawbucks: ten-dollar bills (from the resemblance of X, the Roman symbol for ten, to a sawbuck, or sawhorse)
37. Scratch: money (perhaps from the idea that one has to struggle as if scratching the ground to obtain it)
38. Shekels: dollars (from the biblical currency)
39. Simoleons: dollars (perhaps from a combination of simon, slang for the British sixpence and later the American dollar, and napoleon, a form of French currency)
40. Singles: one-dollar bills

41. Skrilla: money (origin unknown)
42. Smackers: dollars (origin unknown)
43. Spondulix: money (either from spondylus, a Greek word for a shell once used as currency, or from the prefix spondylo-, which means “spine” or “vertebra”; these have a common etymology)
44. Stacks: multiples of a thousand dollars
45. Tenners: ten-dollar bills
46. Ten-spots: ten-dollar bills
47. Two bits: twenty-five cents (a reference to pieces of eight, divisible sections of a Mexican real, or dollar)
48. Wad: a bundle of paper money
49. Wampum: money (from the Native American term wampumpeag, referring to native currency)
50. Yards: one hundred dollars

Available at: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/50-slang-terms-for-money/

Click on the words in red to go to the site!

THE URBAN DICTIONARY

Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary that contains more than seven million definitions as of 2 March 2013 Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors. Time's Anita Hamilton included it on her 50 best websites of 2008 list.

The site was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham while he was a freshman computer science major at California Polytechnic State University. One of the first definitions on the site was "the man", defined as "the faces of 'the establishment' put in place to 'bring us down'".

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