c-note
See also: c note
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
(banknote): From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.
Noun edit
- (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 lowest note of an instrument, written below the staff and the D note.
Synonyms edit
- ($100 banknote): Benjamin
See also edit
References edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “C-note n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang