Meanings
plural c-notes · alternative c note
- USinformalA one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote.
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.
1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
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Origin
From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
c-note. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/c-note
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