Benjamin Franklin

plural Benjamin Franklins

1. slangA United States one-hundred-dollar bill.

   Nobody selling a car for cash demanded to see my driver’s license when I waved a stack of Benjamin Franklins under his nose.

   [2012], David Wambaugh, The Last Call, [Bloomington, Ind.]: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 114

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   “Good enough for me. Take this.” I handed him another stack of Benjamin Franklins and whispered the name and address of a hotel in his ear.

   2006, Sunny, Mona Lisa Awakening, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 202

   Ten thousand. That would be a good start. That would be all he’d need. He was about to toss the stack of Benjamin Franklins on the counter when he changed his mind.

   2006, Paul H. Boge, The Cities of Fortune, Kitchener, Ont.: Castle Quay Books, →ISBN, page 107

   I was twenty-three years old when I made my first significant poker win, a thousand bucks in a pot-limit game where I started with fifty dollars, and since I’d never had more than a hundred to call my own before, just looking at the stack of Benjamin Franklins on my bed gave me a euphoric dizzy feeling.

   2007, anonymous author, Play Poker Like a Pigeon and Take the Money Home, New York, N.Y.: Lyle Stuart, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 157

   Throw a stack of Benjamin Franklins on the table (counterfeit bills are fine) and ask: “If you had unlimited resources to spend on fixing our businesses problems, what would you fix?”

   2014, Patrick J. Stroh, Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 151

   The envelope was half filled with gold coins, most marked “uncirculated” in clear, hinged plastic rolls, and at least a dozen in flat little presentation boxes marked “proof.” Plus a nice, fat stack of Benjamin Franklins still in their original bank wrapper.

   2014, Haywood Smith, Queen Bee Goes Home Again, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 189

   Synonyms: Ben, Ben Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin