Meanings
nounG-note (plural G-notes)
plural G-notes
- USinformalA one-thousand dollar banknote.
Satch took receipt of his two G-notes at a propitious moment.
2000, Mark Ribowsky, Don't look back: Satchel Paige in the shadows of baseball, page 1682 more examples
It seems that the President [...] hit the till for a few G-notes for the love of a blue-eyed brunette with a record of seven convictions as a prostitute.
1957, William Frank Buckley, National Review, volume 3, page 282My tight-skirted kitten pressed two G-notes into my hand. "Please, Mr. Monroe. I don't know where else to turn."
2002, Julie Kenner, Nobody But You
Origin
From G (a grand, one thousand dollars)
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