Hey naturals, how's it going? Gabby Wallace here from gonaturalenglish.com
I am so excited. We're gonna have a lot of fun today learning how to speak English
Using slang to talk about
Money, did you know that in American English we have over?
101 ways to talk about this
thing right here
Money, that's right. So in this lesson, I'm gonna share
101 yes 101
English slang words American English specifically because each
Country has a different currency and different slang words for it. So actually I wanted to ask you
Where are you from? What is your currency?
And what are some slang words that you use in your language to talk about your money?
Please tell me in the comments. I'm super curious
I'm a language nerd and I love to know these things that you don't learn in a traditional language classroom
So let's help each other out
So I'm going to share actually which slang words are most common which ones native
Speakers like myself actually
Use and which ones you should know
but you're probably never going to use and maybe
Never going to hear but it's still fun to know that someone out. There has used these slang words to talk about money
So if you're ready to jump in and learn about how to talk about this
Very important everyday thing like a native English speaker, then let's go
Just before I share the slang words
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Ok, let's start with the most common words to talk about money
Actually, these are not slang, but I'll get to the slang really fast
So we have currency which is to talk about the unit that we use to exchange
Money for services or products so each country has a different currency in the United States
It's the US dollar of course, so we have money and this that I'm holding right here is cash
Money it is the physical
Money, so if you have cash if you're going to pay in cash you'll probably get changed. For example
if I go out to lunch and the lunch is
$18, but I have a 20 dollar bill. I will get $2 in change
So that's a really important word to know we have coins
So let's talk about the words the vocabulary words that we use for the different coins in
the United States we have one cent a
penny
Five cents a nickel ten cents a dime
25 cents a quarter and 50 Cent's is a
Wrapper just a joke guys. Okay, so now let's talk about
slang one of my favorite words is
Moola, feel free to repeat after me really
Repeating after me is a technique called
Shadowing or imitation or copying and it will really help you to remember these vocabulary words
I suggest that you especially try to remember the most common ones which I'm going to share with you first. So here we go again
Moola, I want to make lots of moola. How about you another one is?
Bucks. So this is one buck or a buck super common it comes from
historically when Europeans came to the Americas and we're trading with the
Native Americans they used
buckskins
Apparently to trade for items and so buckskins became bucks or a buck in the singular
So this is a buck. It can also be a single or a dollar bill
We also have to talk about money in general dough and a lot of slang terms for money come from food items
Which is really interesting because well money and food are both really important to our lives
Right, so I need to go to work to make that dough
What is dough dough is what we use to make bread?
so you put the dough in the bread pan and the bread pan in the oven and then you make bread which is
another slang word for
Money go to work make that bread we have another
Dough related slang word which is cake. This is not as common
I've never heard it personally, but I'm sure that a lot of people use it
Cake can be called money money can be called cake
Okay going back to change we have an expression
chump change
Chump change is a very insignificant amount of money
So a dollar for example is not really worth that much anymore
So it's chump change a chump is someone who is not very smart
let's say so you don't want to be a chump and you don't want to have chump change because the back of
US currency is green in color. We have a slang word
Greenbacks to talk about money. This is a
green bag other pretty common words to talk about money are
smackers which also means big kisses but this is one smacker and
Loots which is not a countable noun, so please be aware that some of these well, they're all nouns
Some of them are countable like smackers and some of them are uncountable like loot. So loot is not a word that we use
or on or
Plural with bank means lots of money to make Bank is a good thing
Bacon is a term. That means money. We often use in phrase to bring
The bacon the person who brings home the bacon is the person who makes money and pays the bills
Let's go back to the names for the bills. So I mentioned that this is a dollar bill. It can be
One it can be a single. We also have five dollar bills
So that could be a five notes a ten dollar bill could be a ten notes a twenty dollar bill could be a Jackson
because the president on the twenty dollar bill is
President Jackson
Speaking of presidents on dollar bills we can call US currency
dead
presidents
Because on all of our bills on all of our money we have well
Dead presidents they're all old presidents of the United States and they're all
They've all passed away. So traveling I've seen some of your currency and it's so cool
you guys have things like flowers and animals and women on your
Currencies actually tell me in the comments
What do you have on your currency as I mentioned in the US it's all dead presidents
And so that's another slang word that we can use to talk about money
Where was I talking about the five 10 20 dollar bills?
We don't really have a slang that I know of for the 50 dollar bill
But we have slang for the 100 dollar bill a lot
in fact
It can be a c-note because see is the Roman ladder for 100 a Roman number I should say letter
Which represents a number? Okay. We also have
Franklin's because the President on that bill is Benjamin Franklin. So guess what? We also call them
Benjamins or
Benji's one thousand dollars can be called one grand or a
Grand a grand is a very important big thing. So it's pretty clear where the slang came from
Some people say it came from the French grant. Which also
means
big old French
Okay
One thousand can also be represented with the letter K which comes from the Greek kilo spelled with a k as well
so you might see something like a car that costs 25 K or a
Salary for a job. That is 50 K. For example
So those are some of the most common slang words that we use to refer to
American money now, I want to share
several more slang words with you
I'm gonna go a little bit faster because there's a lot of slang words that people use to talk about money now
These are still fairly commonly used the next group is all food items that we use to talk about money
biscuits
gravy
Cream which comes from an acronym CR EA M cash rules everything
around me
Created by the wu-tang clan, which is a hip hop group
Remembering that the back of currency is green
We have several green food items like cabbage lettuce and salad that we used to refer to money
I mentioned cake before but just to mention again cake bread and dough all refer to money as well
Cheese and specifically cheddar, which is a type of cheese can refer to money
tamales guac
Can both be money, I don't know about you guys but talking about money is actually making me hungry here
Let's talk about some other slang words that are used to talk about money. So, you know that the u.s
borders Mexico, right and they speak Spanish and use
Dinero and pesos for their currency is also currency in other Latin American countries
So in the u.s
Using slang to talk about money. We also say De Niro or
Pesos but notice the accent is a little different. So if you're a Spanish speaker, you'll hear this nice
Gringo accent that we use dinero. It's not dinero its dinero ya
Bands as in the bands that you would wrap around
money capital
chips
Not as in the food, but as in gambling chips scrilla
Skrill
clams bones
scratch
DiMeo
paper stash
samolians
dividends
doing
Units. So for example, I'm doing
Units this is not a noun right units would be the noun
But I'm doing units means I'm making money by selling products dub
Duckett's which comes from the Italian
ducats ends
Fede it's a favorite one of mine because when you throw a bunch of dollar bills in the air, it looks like confetti
So therefore fede can be slang for money Fiat
fitting fitting is
another way to pronounce
15 because the pronunciation of the
15 there's a little difficult
We can kind of make it more casual fitting and it's a slang word down for 15 dollars
also hunted hunted
Hunted is a way of saying 100. Just keep in mind that this is slang. So I'm not saying that it's
Correct. It's not the official standard English, but
Slang is not standard English, right? So this is how we express ourselves in a more colorful way
Finances is the state of one's money. How are your finances?
This doesn't have to be slang, but it can be like I can't go out this weekends
I don't have the finances. So that's using it in kind of an atypical way
Whereas if I if I was your financial planner and I said, how are your finances? That's not slang
That's a more traditional use of the word
Funds is another word for money Gold
Green simply the color green grip
not
large
loots
lucci nuggets
paola pound not as in the British pound but pound
means five dollars racks
resources
riches stacks
stash
tender
treasure
wad
yard
Yen
milli or M or a
Mm. Mm can represent a million rock
OPM other people's money
bankroll
Shillings and of course shillings and yen and pesos are other types of currency
But when we use them to talk about US dollars, it's slang
notes
lolly readies
folding stuff and finally coin so I mentioned previously that coin is
the word for the circular metal objects
Like a quarter is a coin a penny as a coin and nickel is a coin a dime is a coin
But coin can also be a slang term for money
It doesn't necessarily only mean coins as in cents
So coin can just be a term for money. I want to make a lot of
Coin so to wrap up
These were a lot of fun slang words. What I encourage you to do as an English Learner is
Have fun
understanding that these words can mean money
Do I recommend that you start using them to talk about money?
No, maybe one or two of the most popular terms. You can definitely use like dough
moolah
Bucks. Those are really common. And so I do recommend that you use the most common terms
Definitely be ready to understand when native English speakers
American English speakers use them in conversation, especially if you're shopping or you go to a store
Especially if you're in a place that is a little more
American and maybe less
All people might use more slang so know what these words mean. You don't need to use them all but it's really helpful
I think in your
Understanding of native English speakers, it improves your listening skills
because people might be talking about money and you don't even know it and it's
Important to know what people are talking about and money is an important part of our everyday lives
so now I recommend that you watch this again and
Repeat the words after me to improve your pronunciation
listen to how the words sound and you can work on points like
consonant clusters in the word scratch or the L
Sounds like in the word lutes or the R sound like in the word racks
so this lesson is about slang, but we can improve a lot of different points in our English like
pronunciation and
understanding of culture, too
So I think this is super
Interesting that there's over a hundred and one ways to talk about money and probably many more that I haven't even thought
Of so, if you know other ways to talk about US currency that I forgot to talk about here
Please add them in the comments and I can't wait to hear from you. I already asked for a lot of your comments
Tell me about slang words for money in your language. Tell me about what is on your currency
What are the images are there people are there animals flowers?
Places maybe buildings that are very important in your country
tell me in the comments and if I forgot any words or if you have
Questions about any slang words to talk about money in American English. Tell me in the comments
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