A yard is a financial slang term meaning one billion. It has been used to avoid confusion with the words million or trillion when placing a trade. Someone who buys a yard of U.S. dollars is purchasing one billion dollars. The term is often used in currency trading.
The word grand is used in US and UK slang to mean a thousand dollars or a thousand pounds. There are several theories where this term came from, including the possibility that it refers to $1,000 being a grand (“large”) sum of money.
A yard is investment banking slang for a billion. A yard may refer to a volume or to a value of 1,000,000,000. Its original advantage over the word "billion" is that it is unambiguous (although as the use of billion to mean a million million is becoming rare, this is becoming less important.
MONKEY. Origin: UK via India. Meaning: London slang for £500. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. EXPLANATION: While this London-centric slang is entirely British, it actually stems from 19th Century India.
Old Indian rupee banknotes had animals on them and it is said that the 500 rupee note had a monkey on it and the 25 rupee featured a pony and it has been suggested British soldiers returning home coined the phrase 'Monkey' to mean £500 and 'Pony' for £25 and the more recently used 'Bag of Sand' - grand to mean £1000 .
The term 'Yard' in finance refers to one billion. The origin of the term is 'milliard' from European languages, which is equal to one billion in American English. For example, a person purchasing an item for one billion U.S. dollars is said to be purchasing it for a yard of U.S. dollars.
Members of Jamaican or West Indian posses (gangs) are known as yardies, yard meaning either a home or their native land. The girls are known as yard gals.
“Yart” might sound silly, but it's now slang for a 🍃THC vape cartridge (“cart”)—and it's nothing to take lightly. 😮💨 These flavored, high-potency cartridges are easy to hide in schools 🏫 and at home, making them especially risky for teens.
MDMA (3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine), also commonly referred to as molly, mandy or crystal, is a synthetic drug that is also known as ecstasy. Unlike cannabis, a synthetic drug can be created chemically and doesn't require anything to grow.
The term was coined by British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note of that era had a picture of a monkey on it. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted to sterling to mean £500.
nicker = a pound (£1). Not pluralised for a number of pounds, eg., 'It cost me twenty nicker..' From the early 1900s, London slang, precise origin unknown.
Kettle and hob refers to a watch. Back in the old days, “fob” was the word for a pocket watch. Hob (which is a stove), rhymes with “fob.” It's common to refer to a watch as simply a kettle. How it's used: “My girlfriend got me a nice kettle for my birthday.”
Lolly: This weird name for money was originally short for lollipop. It entered British slang as a term for money in the mid-20th century. But no matter where you're from, most everyone agrees money is sweet. Loot: “Loot” is one of the old words for money we still use today.
Q From John Abbeydale: Why does the word carpet mean three in English slang — as in a prison sentence of either three years or three months or, even, a three-pound bet? A To find the origins of this we have to delve into criminals' and prison slang.
Buck is an informal reference to $1 that may trace its origins to the American colonial period when deerskins (buckskins) were commonly traded for goods. The buck also refers to the U.S. dollar as a currency that can be used both domestically and internationally.
A slang name for a shilling was a "bob" (plural as singular, as in "that cost me two bob"). The first recorded use was in a case of coining heard at the Old Bailey in 1789, when it was described as cant, "well understood among a certain set of people", but heard only among criminals and their associates.
Then you must learn the main money values: £20 is a score, £25 is a pony, £100 is a ton, £500 is a monkey, and £1000 is a grand. Here is the complete list of cockney money slang.
The term and slang “Rack” and "Racks" are nouns, which are used to reference money. A Rack means one thousand dollars ($1000). Racks means thousands of dollars. Racks is also sometimes used to reference having lots of money.
