William McKinley

English

Etymology

From the portrait of William McKinley featured on it.

Noun

William McKinley (plural William McKinleys)

  1. (US, slang, rare) A United States five-hundred-dollar bill.
    Synonym: McKinley
    • 1978, Robin Moore, chapter 23, in The Big Paddle, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 196:
      “Well then, Mr. Ganoff, I have here ten William McKinleys to match them,” handing the five-hundred-dollar bills to Pete.
    • 2009, Lynn Brunelle, Jim Brunelle, Delia Greve, Sandra Will, Scholastic 2010 Almanac for Kids: Facts, Figures, & Stats, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 213:
      If you had four Ulysses S. Grants, two Andrew Jacksons, a William McKinley, and five Abe Lincolns in your pocket, how much money would you have?
    • 2020 June 16, Michael McMenamin, Kathleen McMenamin, “An Assassin’s Life Isn’t Easy”, in The Prussian Memorandum: A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill 1930s Adventure, Sarasota, Fla.: First Edition Design Publishing, →ISBN:
      Madden reached into a drawer, pulled out a stack of crisp $500 Federal Reserve notes and counted out twenty five thousand dollars and pushed it across the desk. “There you go, Nicholas, fifty William McKinleys. […]”

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