c-note

See also: c note

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Etymology

(banknote): From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.

Noun

c-note (plural c-notes)

  1. (US, informal) A one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote.
    Synonym: Benjamin
    • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
      If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred.

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