Ayrton Senna

plural Ayrton Sennas

1. CockneyslangTenner (ten pound note)

   An Ayrton Senna (tenner) buys you 15 minutes of madness at Daytona & Indianapolis.

   1995, Time Out London Guide, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 245

   4 more examples

   Youngsters now talk of borrowing an Ayrton Senna (tenner), of feeling Calvin Klein (fine) or being Terry Waite (late).

   2002, Manfred Görlach, Still more Englishes

   You take this hundred quid in used Ayrton Sennas and I'll be off in the old Camilla Parker-Bowles.

   2004, Mervyn Stutter, Getting Nowhere Fast

   “Here, an Ayrton Senna. Now if you can get the crisps and Pepsi, don't forget the mints, I'm going to get a 'nother name.”

   2008, Alfred fox, Anna's Story: Basset Mead, page 24

   'Thank you sir — an Ayrton Senna it is . . . every little helps' The weasel nodded vacantly, ruing the loss of his only tenner.

   2012, John Philips, Who Cares Who's 3rd?: (Or 2nd for That Matter), page 346