lettuce
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- noun
- /ˈlɛtɪs/
- Slang
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plata (Am.)
- Yo, my man, can I borrow some lettuce?
I'm talking about fat stacks, bread, lettuce, that cheddar.
- I'm talking about fat stacks, bread, lettuce, that cheddar.
- You got to get that lettuce, baby, you got to serve that cabbage grow.
- Bought my bread, it's called my lettuce and put these away.
Examples
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I hope to save up enough lettuce to go on a vacation.
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Here, have some of my lettuce.
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How much lettuce do you want?
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Do you have the lettuce?
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Pay the lettuce.
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And as Thoreau probably never said, that's a lot of lettuce.
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I'm talking about fat stacks, bread, lettuce, that cheddar.
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Can you lend me some lettuce until payday?
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They paid for the meal with cold hard lettuce.
Synonyms
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A slang word for money
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An informal word for money that people use
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Informal name for money used to buy things
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Things stolen from shops during chaos
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An informal word for money
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Money in the form of cash or paper bills
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Money you use to buy things
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An informal, playful word for money from Spanish
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Informal word for money, often meaning cash
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Money in cash that people use to buy things
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Money gained in a dishonest or unfair way
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An informal word for money, especially dollars
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An informal name for money someone has to spend
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An informal word for money
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Small amounts of money
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A large amount of cash kept for spending
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Money gained by dishonest or shameful means
An informal word for money or for green salad leaves
Money that people use to buy things
Compounds
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A pale green lettuce with crisp, tightly packed leaves forming a firm round head
A lettuce with firm, light green, tightly packed leaves and a crunchy texture, also called iceberg lettuce
A sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato that often has mayonnaise
A small water plant with round leaves that floats on calm ponds and slow-moving streams
- Specialized
A rare flowering plant from Oregon that looks like mustard and is at risk
A wild plant from Europe with prickly stems that often grows in gardens as a weed
- Specialized
A group of thin green algae like sea lettuce that grow along rocky coasts
A floating tropical plant with soft green leaves that form a round cluster on water
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Lettuce is also used as slang for 'money'. A helpful way to remember this is that banknotes are green like lettuce leaves, so people began calling cash 'lettuce'.