GREENBACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenback mean? 

• GREENBACK (noun)
  The noun GREENBACK has 1 sense:

1. a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

  Familiarity information: GREENBACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENBACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note

Context example:

he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

Hypernyms ("greenback" is a kind of...):

folding money; paper currency; paper money (currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greenback"):

silver certificate (formerly a bank note issued by the United States Treasury and redeemable in silver)

c-note; hundred dollar bill (a United States bill worth 100 dollars)

fifty; fifty dollar bill (a United States bill worth 50 dollars)

twenty; twenty dollar bill (a United States bill worth 20 dollars)

ten dollar bill; tenner (a United States bill worth 10 dollars)

five-spot; five dollar bill; fiver (a United States bill worth 5 dollars)

two dollar bill (a United States bill worth 2 dollars)

buck; clam; dollar; dollar bill; one dollar bill (a piece of paper money worth one dollar)

 Context examples 

Maybe she make fun, too, so I say, 'Let me see thousand dollars.' And that woman, that young woman, all alone on the trail, there in the snow, she take out one thousand dollars, in greenbacks, and she put them in my hand. I look at money, I look at her. What can I say?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)