Ben Franklin

English

Noun

Ben Franklin (plural Ben Franklins)

  1. (US, slang) Synonym of Benjamin Franklin
    • 2003 August, Ercille Christmas, Thoughts of a Proud American: An Ode to “Joe and Josephine Ordinary, Salt of the Earth Americans”, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, published 2006, →ISBN, page 606:
      OK, Lord I am staying, so please open that umbrella, or better yet rain down some Abraham Lincolns and some Ben Franklins on me. I cannot name any higher denomination of money – never been privileged to see anything over a $100 bill.
    • 2004, Peter Plate, chapter 1, in Fogtown: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, page 6:
      Placing Ben Franklins in the box, she lost count of how much was in it after two hundred thousand dollars.
    • 2022, Douglas J. McGregor, Roadtrip 41, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
      Not counting the loose change jiggling in my pocket, (and it sounded like a lot of pennies to me), I only had one Ben Franklin, two Ulysses S. Grants, a crinkly Andrew Jackson that someone had drawn an ink moustache on, two Lincolns and two Washingtons.
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