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Noun. Money. A mispronunciation of 'sovs' (sovereign, meaning £1 sterling). E.g."How many sobs did that Armani suit cost?"
Noun. One pound sterling.
one pound sterling
Noun. 1. £25 sterling. 2. Rubbish, nonsense. E.g."Our team are a load of old pony and don't deserve to be in the final." 3. An act of defecation. E.g."Can you wait for me? I need to have a pony." 4. A piece of excrement. * Versions 2, 3 and 4 are from the rhyming slang pony and trap meaning 'crap'. See 'crap'.
one pound (£1) or a number of pounds sterling. Plural uses singular form, eg., 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it..', or 'I won five hundred quid on the horses yesterday..'. The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600s England, derived from Latin (quid meaning 'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). Other intriguing possible origins/influences include a suggested connection with the highly secretive Quidhampton banknote paper-mill, and the term quid as applied (ack D Murray) to chewing tobacco, which are explained in more detail under quid in the cliches, words and slang page.
Pounds sterling. If something costs £1 you may be asked for a quid; the word doesn't change in the plural, so £50 is fifty quid
Noun. A jocular term for one pound sterling, derived from 'quid'.
Noun. A ten-pound (sterling) monetary note. {Informal}
Noun. 1. A loud kiss. From the noise it might make. 2. One pound sterling, although usually in the plural. E.g."She still owes me 40 smackers from last week." 3. A strong physical blow. E.g."I caught him a right smacker on his jaw."
Noun. Money. Abb. of sovereign, £1 sterling.
adj good/great: That main course was sterling stuff.
Noun. A five pound (sterling) note. Rhyming slang on 'fiver'. See 'fiver'.
guinea is not a slang term, it's a proper and historical word for an amount of money equating to twenty-one shillings, or in modern sterling one pound five pence.
Verb. 1. To obtain illicit drugs. [Orig. U.S. 1930s] 2. To achieve a liason with a sexually desirable person. Noun. In money, 20 pounds sterling.
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Look up sterling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sterling may refer to: The English penny, historically known as the sterling Pound sterling, the currency
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling
Donald T. Sterling (born Donald Samuel Tokowitz; April 26, 1934) is an American attorney and businessman who was the owner of the San Diego/Los Angeles
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the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, and continues at the new firm of Sterling Cooper Draper
Shaquille Sterling (born 8 December 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Arsenal, on loan from Chelsea. Sterling began
Sterling is an English surname. One source attributes this surname to a contraction of Easterling, "a name given to Hanse merchants" and nothing more than
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Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor, and Marine. A leading man for
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Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
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A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
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A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
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An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
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A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
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A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.
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Twenty-five pounds sterling.
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Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
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A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
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A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
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An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
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A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
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A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817.
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An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
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A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.
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A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents.
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A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.
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An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.
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A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
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