LEARN AMERICAN ENGLISH SLANG | SLANG WORDS ABOUT 💲MONEY💲 | Go Natural English

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

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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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