McKinley

• (surname): McKinlay

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaoich, "son of Fionnlaoch (=Fair Warrior)". The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of William McKinley featured on it.

McKinley (plural McKinleys)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
   • 1902 December 31, “McKinley Relative Married. Miss Mary Barber, Niece of the President’s Widow, a Bride at Canton, Ohio.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2018:

     The ceremony was performed at the commodious old Saxton homestead, formerly the home of the McKinleys, now occupied by the Barbers, and was witnessed by Mrs. McKinley.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname, briefly popular in the US when William McKinley was President (1897-1901).
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
4. An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Washington County, Indiana, United States.
6. A tiny city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
7. An unorganized territory in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
8. A neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
9. An unincorporated community in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States.
10. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
11. A former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.
12. A town and unincorporated community in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
13. A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

• McKinley County
• McKinleyism
• McKinleyville
• Mount McKinley

• Finlay
• Finlayson
• Finley

McKinley (plural McKinleys)

1. (US, slang, rare) A United States five-hundred-dollar bill.

   Synonym: William McKinley

   • 1990, Stewart Wolpin, The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle®, New York, N.Y.: New Chapter Press, →ISBN, page 339:

     Presidents: Cash money, folding bills, the green stuff, cabbage, lettuce, bucks, dough, i.e., Washingtons ($1), Jeffersons ($2), Lincolns ($5), Jacksons ($20), Grants ($50), McKinleys ($500), Clevelands ($1,000), Madisons ($5,000), and Wilsons ($100,000).

   • 1996, Alice Kaseberg, Introductory Algebra: A Just-in-Time Approach, Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 237:

     Write an equation for each relevant clue. Solve by substitution. […] h. 10 Grants make a McKinley (M_c).

   • 1999 December 12, Tony Oresteen, “Gold Doller^[sic] coin coming March 1, 2000”, in rec.gambling.poker‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     Every time I go into a bank I put down a Jackson and I ask for 10 $2 bills. Sometimes I get them, most often not. We don't need a $1 bill, I welcome the $1 coin. Print more $2 bills. What we really need are McKinleys and Clevelands - $500 and $1,000 bills.

   • 2007 November 16, Jerry Dennis, “Dollar Bill Production Halted”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     Cheapskates! USE DEUCES! The girls love them. (They love Lincolns, Hamiltons, Jacksons, Grants, Franklins, McKinleys, Clevelands, Madisons, and Chases, too. Too bad you couldn't give them Wilsons.)

   • 2008 May 14, St John, “the name "McKinley"”, in bit.listserv.blues-l‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     nice that folks name children after Muddy....very blues relevant.... "jus' keepin' the blues alive"......!!!! myself?...I'd just as soon have a coupla "McKinleys" in my wallet at this time..... anybody else? thanx you very much.......

2. (computing, historical, informal) A processor of Intel’s first Itanium 2 brand, code-named McKinley.
   • 2001 June 28, Malcolm Dunnett, “Full port of VMS to Itanium.”, in comp.os.vms‎^[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     This may or may not be true, but the masses are going to believe it and buy Merceds ( or hold off buying anything ) on the promise that in a year or two they'll be able to upgrade to McKinleys that will blow away anything the competition has.

   • 2001 November 7, Bill Todd, “Compaq: VMS is alive and kicking”, in comp.os.vms‎^[6] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     The cost of the Alpha processors in a current mid-range or better AlphaServer is a *small* percentage of the whole. Replace them with 'McKinleys and the box price won't change significantly (unless you try to recoup the cost of developing the McKinley version, in which case the price will go *up*) - even if you *give the McKinleys away*.

   • 2002 July 17, Rupert Pigott, “McKinley Cometh...”, in comp.arch‎^[7] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     We'll see, INTEL are playing their cards very close to their chest, but $1500 'low-end' McKinleys don't sounds like they are going to compete in any meaningful way with the P4 line to me.

   • 2003 April 29, Rick Jones, “Itanium Madison blasts Sun, IBM in encryption specs!”, in comp.os.vms‎^[8] (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 June 2025:

     That comment was refering^[sic] to the systems with 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 6M CPUs (aka Madison), not the older McKinleys.