dollar (noun)

  • 81silver dollar — noun a) A dollar coin, whether made from silver or not. In Las Vegas, many of the slot machines use silver dollars. b) A small pancake. Alice went to the diner and ordered a stack of silver dollars with butter and blueberry syrup …

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  • 82rix-dollar — noun /ˈɹɪksˌdɒlə/ a) A silver coin and money of account in use from the late 16 to the mid 19 centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.<ref name= OED ref >The Oxford English Dictionary… …

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  • 83pink dollar — noun The business generated by providing goods and services to the homosexual community. Syn: Dorothy dollar, pink pound …

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  • 84half-dollar — noun A coin worth one half of a dollar …

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  • 85top dollar — noun The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price. Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kayes chief scripter …

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  • 86sixty-four thousand dollar question — noun informal something that is not known and on which a great deal depends. Origin 1940s: orig. sixty four dollar question, from a question posed for the top prize in a broadcast quiz show …

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  • 87silver dollar — noun (C) a former US one dollar coin, that is now very valuable …

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  • 88sixty-four-thousand-dollar question — noun (singular) informal the most important question, which you do not know the answer to: But will they accept the offer? That s the sixty four thousand dollar question …

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  • 89sixty-four dollar question — noun the crucial, decisive, or fundamental issue of a matter. Also, sixty four thousand dollar question. {named after the final prize in the US radio quiz game Take It or Leave It (1941–48), the variant being a later adaptation} …

  • 90Australian dollar — noun the basic unit of money in Australia and Nauru • Hypernyms: ↑dollar …

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