dead president
See also: dead-president
English
Etymology
Based on the observation that the presidents whose faces decorate US currency are invariably deceased.
Pronunciation
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Noun
dead president (plural dead presidents)
- (US, slang) A piece of US paper currency.
- 2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press (2000), →ISBN, page 149:
- Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.
- 2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press (2000), →ISBN, page 149:
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see dead, president.
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