long green
- noun
- Archaic
:
dinero
- Winning the lottery brought in a massive amount of long green for her.
Examples
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They are always looking for ways to make some extra long green on the side.
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Lots of long green inside.
Fiction book (1992) -
He saved up a lot of long green to buy his dream car.
Synonyms
15
5.2
A paper U.S. dollar bill used as money
7
9.9
Money in the form of cash or paper bills
Informal British word for money, especially cash
An informal word for money or for green salad leaves
A very large amount of money
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
long + green
The slang meaning 'money, especially a large amount' is not directly derivable from the literal senses of 'long' (length or a specialized financial sense) and 'green' (a color). Although 'green' can be associated with US currency, that cultural association and the slang pairing 'long green' are idiomatic and not reliably predictable for a B1 learner who only knows the constituents.
Etymology
Long green may come from the image of a long stack of green dollar bills. One popular story says people saw a long pile of 'green' money and called it 'long green', so the phrase now means 'a large amount of money'.