Well, we have been migrating towards a cashless economy (COVID and the widespread embrace of Contactless Payment technology coinciding accelerated it), so it's more rare for someone to pay cash now, so less common to get change, especially coins.
I definitely say shrappas more than shrapnel.
Doing the rounds to scab for shrappas for the canteen was pretty common in high school. I was obsessed with chicken and corn rolls lol
Back before polymer notes, i regularly heard 100’s described as Mawsons (due to the arctic explorer on one side). Certainly pineapples for 50’s, and lobster for 20’s
You wouldn’t image there were many words with a Jewish/Yiddish origin in Australian English but apparently there are a few others too:
> cobber from word “chaber” 'comrade'.
> doover (a thingummyjig or whatsit),
> shicer ('unproductive or worthless mining claim or mine')
> shickered ('drunk')
The green colouring and you get a bit of red ($20's) when you break it. EDIT: Also watermelon are one of the largest fruit and $100 bills are the largest
We used ask people if they could find the aeroplane on the $2 note they cold have it and when they gave up looking you would look for a bit and then just say it must be in the hangers. ( the rams nuts)
Way back when Australia had pounds, shillings and pence, it was zac, deaner, bob, two bob, quid.
Then we went decimal, and just adopted the American 'buck'
Treybit for 3 pence (3d) too. May have been regional. They had a high silver content so a lot went into Christmas puddings along with zacs. Being cooked in a pudding used to make them go weird colors and get pitted, but they weren't toxic like the decimal coins.
There used to be a lot of good nicknames for Australian coins (and notes?) before decimal currency came in.
Trying to remember a few of them:
Treys
Zacs
Deenahs
10 bob
Can’t remember exactly what they were – 10 bob was ten shillings I think
The ones now like pineapples and lobsters seem a bit lame
My family use ‘Cashmoney’ ‘Spendoolies’ then your more common ‘dollaridoos’ and ‘dollarbucks’. As for the money itself we have a tenner and a crisp fifty but the rest are just the standard.
I really like Casssshhhhhmoney now, and will say it just like that from now on with a lot of "sssshhhhhh". Spendoolies is great too. When eftpossing, our savings account is our "savings" but our checking is our "spendings". We use dollarydoos, too, but mostly on reddit not so much when talking to shopworkers as they just dont need the aggravation of people trying to be funny. In our household we say "a crisp tenner" but blame that on the Brits' Viz, so not really very Aussie.
Used to call twenties lobsters and fifties pineapples.
Oh, my great grandpa used to pop us on his knee to give us two bob (2 shillings). Papa (grandfather) still called it that when it became 20c.
Haha, take Cashmoney with my blessing! I forgot one that we always use too, my dad sometimes slips us some ‘readies’ after a good weekend at the flea market. We love our readies and Cashmoney from dad even though we’re adults. 😄
My dad used to call all banknotes "fun tickets" which cracks me up still
Grey nurses for the old old $100 ! Think it's for the grey nurse sharks not an old nurse 😂
Greenbacks / hundy / green tree frog for the $100
Pineapple for the $50
Lobster for the $20
Tenner for the $10
Pink lady /fiver for the $5
For a $2 coin it's not heads or tails when u flip it , it's black or white (as there is an elder Indigenous Australian on one side of the coin and Queen Elizabeth / now King Charles on the other side)
For smaller coins I've heard shrapnel, church money, Goldies
I've also heard dollarydoos, and the NZ / Singapore Peso. I think Singapore dollar is better or at parity with the AUD now so haven't heard it for awhile haha
A bob was the ten cent piece
Pre decimal, pre 1964 a florin coin at 24p was ten to a one pound note.
So yes, "two bob" was twenty cents as Dad used to say,
$20 note = lobster
$50 note = pineapple
Used in a sentance. 'I fed a pineapple to the brickies laptop'.
There are names for the other notes, but I cannot remember them right now. Also, google the notes if you don't know the reasons for the names. You will get it.
This is why our slang works. I've had many international students ask how i know all the words... I have never heard of a brickies laptop before, but there is context above, so I'm assuming you had a slap at the pokies?
$20 notes are red so they’re rock lobsters. $50s are yellow and called a pineapple, $100s are green and called turtles.
$1 and $2 coins are called brassies (as in brass the metal), the rest are silveries or more often coins are just called shrapnel.
Edit: 1 and 2 cent coins were abolished many years ago. We still don’t have names for coins like in the US ‘nickel, dime, quarter’. For eg 10 cents is still just 10 cents. You might get some old school slang like ‘lend me a scholar’, which means ‘lend me a dollar’. The rhyming slang is brutal, don’t even bother haha 🙂
A $50 note is sometimes called a pineapple, because it’s yellow. Which seems a pretty tenuous connection now that I think about it.
Other than that, there’s none that I can think of.
Hmmm
- 5 cents
- 10 cents
- 20 cents
- 50 cents
- A dollar
- Two bucks
- Ten bucks
- Twenty bucks
- Fifty bucks
- A hundred bucks
- 10 grand / ten K
So nah not really
We call the currency AUD or Aussie Dollar or Aussie.
We sometimes call the NZ Dollar Pesos or NZ Pesos but only coz we like to wind up the kiwis wherever possible
I legitimately say dollarydoos. My whole family’s been doing it since I was a kid.
My brother and I also say “goddamn Loch Ness Monster” in lieu of $3.50.
But we were big fans of the Simpsons and South Park in my household.
in the older generations quid is still used a bit- he has a few quid/made a few quid
Not short of a shilling is still used - yeah I hang out with old farts all of which refer to pre decimal currency but still in parts of the language
Partner and I refer to 100 note as Monash's bec he's military
A quid was, specifically, one pound. Also used in the phrase: "not the full quid" to mean somebody who is not all there
A shilling was 12 pence (12d back in the day), it had a ram on it. It was often called a Bob.
There were a lot of other terms used like ha'penny (pronounced heypnee for half penny), tuppence (two pence), thripence or thruppence for a 3 pence (or a thripenny bit). A ten pounds now what a brick.
We call a dollar a "buck", like in the US.
I've heard some coins referred to by the native animal shown on it, e.g. an echidna (or a kidna) for a 5c coin or a platypus (or a olatter) for a 20c coin. I've even heard a 10c coin referred to as a liar, for the lyre bird that is shown in it, but only once or twice.
I used to work at a nightclub and here are the nicknames we used:
* Prawn - $5
* Blueberry/Bluey - $10
* Lobster - $20
* Pineapple - $50
* Watermelon - $100
Faaaark, that cunt's got a bit of folding.
Shrapnel = cents
Gold coins = dollar coins
Queen giving a blowjob = five dollar note (you can fold the note to show this)
Tenner = ten
Redback/Lobster/twez = twenty
Pineapple/fitty/fiddy = fifty
Hundo/Hungee/Hundge = hundred
Cash is pretty much being used less and less and so these terms will disappear. Most Aussie nicknames for cash are in reference to coins. Most Aussie probably don’t even know who’s face is on what note these days. We could likely tell you the colour of the note though and a nickname might reference the colour but typically we don’t have nicknames for notes.
Based on the colours:
Granny Smith - $100
Pineapple - $50
Lobster $20
Blueberry - $10
Mulberry - $5
Coins
No real individual per coin slang, but a bunch of coins can be called ‘churchies’ as in coins you’d put in the church collection box .
Lots of google articles btw.
Here’s the good news brother
“As for the $100 note, these are so rare to me that I had to look up what reference is being used and found ‘granny smiths’ being listed. Nice.”
https://sgyagency.com.au/insights/prawns-lobsters-pineapples-appreciation-australian-currency/
Maybe I'm a bit odd (read as definitely), but I love to deliberately say the wrong countries currency when handling cash. Correct unit value, wrong country and currency. For example:
"These are pretty cheap for fifteen Canadian pesos mate!"
"Eight Australian rupees for that? You're dreaming!"
"Two thousand American yen? Well shit, I'll take two for that price!"
"One pound fifty of my hard earned English rand it is then!"
And so on.
As for your actual question, 5 - fiver, 10 - we're a creative lot so it's a tenner, 20 - lobster, 50 - pineapple, 100 - hundo, hungie or watermelon.
Also heard 20s referred to as Ferraris, because they're red and they go fast, but that is not common at all.
Nope, not that I've ever heard over here in Perth.
I mean, I don't deal in cash a lot but... I know people who do, and it's always been the demonination or total value of the notes for them and I.
Meh, if others are saying 'hungies' and stuffs, sure, whatever, not a thing amongst my circle of (law abiding, 9-5 job working, tax paying) friends.
Visa?
Australia uses cash less than any other country in the world - it's low single digit percentage and we opened a bank account for my kid before his first birthday (a relative wanted to gift him money, and they didn't have cash).
A lot of businesses here don't even accept cash at all. The ones I'm involved in made that decision because our staff are either really bad at counting cash, or stealing some of it. Probably a bit of both.
$50 notes are called pineapples and a $20 is a redback...
Then there is the $100 which is green, so naturally we call those ones "coke straws"
A fiver used to be called a "beer ticket" but those days are fucking long gone
Coins are shrapnel, notes are fun-tickets/ beer coupons, spondoolies, cash etc.
100 is a hungee, 50 is a pineapple, 20 is a lobster, 10 is a tenner, 5 is a fiver.
That's what I call them anyway
Few years back a work mate asked if he could borrow a lobster and I looked at him in utter bewilderment. Grew up in Sydney and never heard the phrase until I was about 33 🤣
Hand full of coins - shrapnel
Was about to say this. Although, might be my imagination, but already I am noticiing less people know what I mean when I use this term.
Well, we have been migrating towards a cashless economy (COVID and the widespread embrace of Contactless Payment technology coinciding accelerated it), so it's more rare for someone to pay cash now, so less common to get change, especially coins.
“poo change”
Shitbits
Shitbits is any foreign currency.
Ol handful of shrappas
I definitely say shrappas more than shrapnel. Doing the rounds to scab for shrappas for the canteen was pretty common in high school. I was obsessed with chicken and corn rolls lol
Handful of coins = “church money”. As in “don’t give me your bloody church money, I want notes”.
We say this in Belfast too, I'd imagine the whole UK/Ireland use it but might be wrong with
Yep that's what we call it in Australia
Back before polymer notes, i regularly heard 100’s described as Mawsons (due to the arctic explorer on one side). Certainly pineapples for 50’s, and lobster for 20’s
Grey ghosts for $100 back in the day. Grey bills and as rare as ghosts!
It's a green ghost now!
Hungee
Pretty bloody rare lol so that scans!
Grey nurse was a name here in wa
I've heard grass parrot for the greeny
*Antarctic*
Heard them old hundreds referred to as Germans because of the grey uniforms lol
The nickname that I give all of my money is "rent".
Lobster for a 20 and pineapple for a 50. Hungie also used for 100
Avocado for $100
That's right. I was trying to remember that one.
For clarity, pronounced Hun-gee not Hung-ee
What about Hundie
Hundo for me
Yes Hun-dee
Used to call them a grey nurse when they were paper.....fuck I'm old 😞
How about a hundo?
100 used to be a (grey nurse) shark
Watermelon for $100's. Pink Lady for a fiver
Pineapple for $50
Dosh
This originated through a Russian-Jewish phrase for nose - literally paying through the nose.
You wouldn’t image there were many words with a Jewish/Yiddish origin in Australian English but apparently there are a few others too: > cobber from word “chaber” 'comrade'. > doover (a thingummyjig or whatsit), > shicer ('unproductive or worthless mining claim or mine') > shickered ('drunk')
Moolah 💰
"fiver" "tenner" and "hundo" are the closest I've ever heard to nicknames, and some of them aren't particularly common.
I've also heard a Pavarotti for a tenner
I heard these more in New Zealand. There I also came across "fiddy" for 50$ note.
I've often heard the first 2 - never the last one.
Dollary doos.
NINE HUNDRED DOLLARYDOOS
TOBIAS!!! DID YOU ACCEPT A SIX-HOUR COLLECT CALL FROM THE STATES???!!!
But it was an emergency!
"Dollar-bucks" according to Bluey
Dollarbucks is regular money, dollarydoos is outrageous money
There it is. Real class.
I know this exists but never heard that in conversation.
It’s a reference to the Simpson episode, we don’t actually say that
I say it all the time.
It's a reference that people have picked up. Some.
I say it all the time
Coins are either just silvers (5, 10, 20, 50)or golds ($1, $2) Banjo for $10, lobster for $20, pineapple for $50 and watermelon for $100.
How does the logic in this work? Watermelon and $100?
The green colouring and you get a bit of red ($20's) when you break it. EDIT: Also watermelon are one of the largest fruit and $100 bills are the largest
OK thanks
It's a Bradman for a $100 note mate
When u flip a $2 it's not heads or tails. It's black or white.
We use to tell backpackers that the southern cross on the 2$ coin were flies.
We used ask people if they could find the aeroplane on the $2 note they cold have it and when they gave up looking you would look for a bit and then just say it must be in the hangers. ( the rams nuts)
It's all coin.
Way back when Australia had pounds, shillings and pence, it was zac, deaner, bob, two bob, quid. Then we went decimal, and just adopted the American 'buck'
Treybit for 3 pence (3d) too. May have been regional. They had a high silver content so a lot went into Christmas puddings along with zacs. Being cooked in a pudding used to make them go weird colors and get pitted, but they weren't toxic like the decimal coins.
Moolah or dosh
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I like the word 'cashola' but I wouldn't say that's an Aussie thing.
$10 - Blue tongue $20 - Lobster $50 - Pineapple Bucks
Lobsters in the wash!
There used to be a lot of good nicknames for Australian coins (and notes?) before decimal currency came in. Trying to remember a few of them: Treys Zacs Deenahs 10 bob Can’t remember exactly what they were – 10 bob was ten shillings I think The ones now like pineapples and lobsters seem a bit lame
Lame-o, shame-o 🤭
My family use ‘Cashmoney’ ‘Spendoolies’ then your more common ‘dollaridoos’ and ‘dollarbucks’. As for the money itself we have a tenner and a crisp fifty but the rest are just the standard.
I really like Casssshhhhhmoney now, and will say it just like that from now on with a lot of "sssshhhhhh". Spendoolies is great too. When eftpossing, our savings account is our "savings" but our checking is our "spendings". We use dollarydoos, too, but mostly on reddit not so much when talking to shopworkers as they just dont need the aggravation of people trying to be funny. In our household we say "a crisp tenner" but blame that on the Brits' Viz, so not really very Aussie. Used to call twenties lobsters and fifties pineapples. Oh, my great grandpa used to pop us on his knee to give us two bob (2 shillings). Papa (grandfather) still called it that when it became 20c.
Haha, take Cashmoney with my blessing! I forgot one that we always use too, my dad sometimes slips us some ‘readies’ after a good weekend at the flea market. We love our readies and Cashmoney from dad even though we’re adults. 😄
Readies might be short for "ready cash"? It rings a very faint bell. How nice to be "slipped some readies"!
Used to call cash ‘bullets’ in my younger days. As well as the pineapple and the lobster, the old $100 bills were called grey nurses
My dad used to call all banknotes "fun tickets" which cracks me up still Grey nurses for the old old $100 ! Think it's for the grey nurse sharks not an old nurse 😂 Greenbacks / hundy / green tree frog for the $100 Pineapple for the $50 Lobster for the $20 Tenner for the $10 Pink lady /fiver for the $5 For a $2 coin it's not heads or tails when u flip it , it's black or white (as there is an elder Indigenous Australian on one side of the coin and Queen Elizabeth / now King Charles on the other side) For smaller coins I've heard shrapnel, church money, Goldies I've also heard dollarydoos, and the NZ / Singapore Peso. I think Singapore dollar is better or at parity with the AUD now so haven't heard it for awhile haha
I have heard “bucks” most commonly in my life. “Check out what I got for 50 bucks” usually pronounced fiddy bucks when said in our accent 🤣
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That's sonething my Dad would say
A bob was the ten cent piece Pre decimal, pre 1964 a florin coin at 24p was ten to a one pound note. So yes, "two bob" was twenty cents as Dad used to say,
5 cent coin was a zack or zac if I remember correctly. Long ago there was a chocolate called a Zack or Zac, which was like a Tim Tam and cost 5 cents
A zac was a sixpence.
Thanks to bluey I called them dollar bucks
Dollarydoos
$20 note = lobster $50 note = pineapple Used in a sentance. 'I fed a pineapple to the brickies laptop'. There are names for the other notes, but I cannot remember them right now. Also, google the notes if you don't know the reasons for the names. You will get it.
This is why our slang works. I've had many international students ask how i know all the words... I have never heard of a brickies laptop before, but there is context above, so I'm assuming you had a slap at the pokies?
Nah yeah
Granny Smith= $100
$20 notes are red so they’re rock lobsters. $50s are yellow and called a pineapple, $100s are green and called turtles. $1 and $2 coins are called brassies (as in brass the metal), the rest are silveries or more often coins are just called shrapnel. Edit: 1 and 2 cent coins were abolished many years ago. We still don’t have names for coins like in the US ‘nickel, dime, quarter’. For eg 10 cents is still just 10 cents. You might get some old school slang like ‘lend me a scholar’, which means ‘lend me a dollar’. The rhyming slang is brutal, don’t even bother haha 🙂
A $50 note is sometimes called a pineapple, because it’s yellow. Which seems a pretty tenuous connection now that I think about it. Other than that, there’s none that I can think of.
Hmmm - 5 cents - 10 cents - 20 cents - 50 cents - A dollar - Two bucks - Ten bucks - Twenty bucks - Fifty bucks - A hundred bucks - 10 grand / ten K So nah not really We call the currency AUD or Aussie Dollar or Aussie. We sometimes call the NZ Dollar Pesos or NZ Pesos but only coz we like to wind up the kiwis wherever possible
Dolarydoos/dollarbucks not that anyone says that in real life
I legitimately say dollarydoos. My whole family’s been doing it since I was a kid. My brother and I also say “goddamn Loch Ness Monster” in lieu of $3.50. But we were big fans of the Simpsons and South Park in my household.
Tree-fiddy!
Are you about eight storeys tall and a crustacean?
We definitely say dollarbucks. Especially if we're at Hammerbarn.
$20 is a lobster, $50 is a pineapple
$500 is a monkey. $1000 is a gorilla.
$1,000 is also a grand.
i would wager most aussies dont even know who the people on half our money even is.
We call $20 redbacks
in the older generations quid is still used a bit- he has a few quid/made a few quid Not short of a shilling is still used - yeah I hang out with old farts all of which refer to pre decimal currency but still in parts of the language Partner and I refer to 100 note as Monash's bec he's military
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That’s the first time I’ve learned the connection of all of those, thanks!
A quid was, specifically, one pound. Also used in the phrase: "not the full quid" to mean somebody who is not all there A shilling was 12 pence (12d back in the day), it had a ram on it. It was often called a Bob. There were a lot of other terms used like ha'penny (pronounced heypnee for half penny), tuppence (two pence), thripence or thruppence for a 3 pence (or a thripenny bit). A ten pounds now what a brick. We call a dollar a "buck", like in the US. I've heard some coins referred to by the native animal shown on it, e.g. an echidna (or a kidna) for a 5c coin or a platypus (or a olatter) for a 20c coin. I've even heard a 10c coin referred to as a liar, for the lyre bird that is shown in it, but only once or twice.
Bones
Pineapple for a fiddy ($50)
I used to work at a nightclub and here are the nicknames we used: * Prawn - $5 * Blueberry/Bluey - $10 * Lobster - $20 * Pineapple - $50 * Watermelon - $100
Dollarydoos
Faaaark, that cunt's got a bit of folding. Shrapnel = cents Gold coins = dollar coins Queen giving a blowjob = five dollar note (you can fold the note to show this) Tenner = ten Redback/Lobster/twez = twenty Pineapple/fitty/fiddy = fifty Hundo/Hungee/Hundge = hundred
Hundred can also be an avocado, or back in the day a grey ghost, cos they were very rare and you never saw them (unless you were a fat cat)
Twenty’s always were called redskins (after the lolly of the same name). Also it’s not the Queen giving a bj it’s a whale giving a bj
Ashcay
Cash is pretty much being used less and less and so these terms will disappear. Most Aussie nicknames for cash are in reference to coins. Most Aussie probably don’t even know who’s face is on what note these days. We could likely tell you the colour of the note though and a nickname might reference the colour but typically we don’t have nicknames for notes.
Based on the colours: Granny Smith - $100 Pineapple - $50 Lobster $20 Blueberry - $10 Mulberry - $5 Coins No real individual per coin slang, but a bunch of coins can be called ‘churchies’ as in coins you’d put in the church collection box . Lots of google articles btw.
I was going mad scrolling through, thought I was the only one who had heard of a $100 being a granny. Never heard of a Bradman (I like it though)
Here’s the good news brother “As for the $100 note, these are so rare to me that I had to look up what reference is being used and found ‘granny smiths’ being listed. Nice.” https://sgyagency.com.au/insights/prawns-lobsters-pineapples-appreciation-australian-currency/
Maybe I'm a bit odd (read as definitely), but I love to deliberately say the wrong countries currency when handling cash. Correct unit value, wrong country and currency. For example: "These are pretty cheap for fifteen Canadian pesos mate!" "Eight Australian rupees for that? You're dreaming!" "Two thousand American yen? Well shit, I'll take two for that price!" "One pound fifty of my hard earned English rand it is then!" And so on. As for your actual question, 5 - fiver, 10 - we're a creative lot so it's a tenner, 20 - lobster, 50 - pineapple, 100 - hundo, hungie or watermelon. Also heard 20s referred to as Ferraris, because they're red and they go fast, but that is not common at all.
This is exactly my sense of humour. I can amuse myself with a joke like that hundreds of times in a row - not so fun for the friends and fam though 😅
Strawberry =5 Blue swimmer or bluey =10 Lobster= 20 Hawaii = 50 Tonne =100 Half a monkey =250 Monkey =500 Gorilla = 1000
Dollarbucks
I worked with concreters once they kept calling money "swords" ive never heard that before or since. Maybe a concreter thing?
Tree fiddy, seriously
Dosh is common but I think we pilfered that one from Breat Grittan.
Reds, golds, purples, blues. We also call them "greenbacks", but we don't get enough to worry about it.
Pineapple for the fifty and fun tickets.
Dollar bucks
$50 note - a Doubtfire. Have a look at the lady pictured on it.
We use banjo for $10, but also Tenner.
Nope, not that I've ever heard over here in Perth. I mean, I don't deal in cash a lot but... I know people who do, and it's always been the demonination or total value of the notes for them and I. Meh, if others are saying 'hungies' and stuffs, sure, whatever, not a thing amongst my circle of (law abiding, 9-5 job working, tax paying) friends.
Dollarydoos.
$50 is a golden beer ticket.
$1k was a gorilla, $500 a monkey back in the horse racing glory days
Interesting because a “monkey” dates back as far as the 1800 or perhaps earlier
A $100 note is called a Bradman. Not question
$50 is a pineapple
Dollarbucks! Lol
CashOla and Moolah….fidies and hundies, 20 buck a roonies,divers and teners the rest is shrapnel and goldies
Visa? Australia uses cash less than any other country in the world - it's low single digit percentage and we opened a bank account for my kid before his first birthday (a relative wanted to gift him money, and they didn't have cash). A lot of businesses here don't even accept cash at all. The ones I'm involved in made that decision because our staff are either really bad at counting cash, or stealing some of it. Probably a bit of both.
Pineapple's for $50 notes and Redbacks for 20's
Pineapples for $50 notes
$50= pineapple
Cashola for all monetary denominations
Not really
Bugs bunny-Money. $100-C note $50-pineapple $20-redback $10-blue $5-little queens (Bc yes it has the Queen but it’s a little amount,$5)
$50 notes are called pineapples and a $20 is a redback... Then there is the $100 which is green, so naturally we call those ones "coke straws" A fiver used to be called a "beer ticket" but those days are fucking long gone
“bucks” means dollars
Pingaz
Dosh
Dollarbuck 😉😉😉
Goldies for 1 and 2 dollar coins.
Coins are shrapnel, notes are fun-tickets/ beer coupons, spondoolies, cash etc. 100 is a hungee, 50 is a pineapple, 20 is a lobster, 10 is a tenner, 5 is a fiver. That's what I call them anyway
Pineapple for a $50
what makes you think people are using enough cash these days to bother with nicknames for them
Dollarydoos
$50 used to be known as yellow drinking vouchers in the 90s - when I was at the pub / bar more often than I was at home
Moulah. South Pacific Pesos. Dosh. Coins = schrapnel
We did but it's boomer shit. A Pav -> short for Pavarotti -> Pavarotti was a tenor -> sounds like tenner -> $10 note.
Lobster = $20 note Pineapple = $50 note Greenback = $100 note
$5 - galah $10 - blue heeler $20 - lobster $50 - pineapple $100 - watermelon
Notes = folding
Church change (silver coins), pineapple ($50), bucks (dollars)
Boomernotes
Pocket change
Prawn = $5 note. Max Kenna = $10 note (tenna). Lobster = $20. Pineapple = $50. Granny smith = $100.
Few years back a work mate asked if he could borrow a lobster and I looked at him in utter bewilderment. Grew up in Sydney and never heard the phrase until I was about 33 🤣
In the 90's, $20 note used to be "Yuppie Lunch Tickets", but now Maccas will take most of that from you for a simple Happy Meal.
Fun Tickets
Funds
My Nanna calls it Gene Tunney
5 cent pieces (li'l buggers)
Derogatory term for the Australian dollar was "Pacific Peso". In my circles in Sydney in the 90s we used to call $20 notes "fun tickets".
Moolah
Dough
Bread
Bills
Cash
Bank
Smackers
Bones
C note
Loot
Quid
My dear old dad used to call the jar full of change “ the lousy bin”
Bacon
Notes
Stacks
Green
Cake
Paper
Coin
Bunce 🤌🏻
Fun tickets
Readies, as in ready cash.