kilobuck

plural kilobucks

1. informalplural normallyA thousand dollars.

   Of course such a leak detector, responsive to a single element, is simpler, more compact, and less expensive than the full-fledged mass spectroscope, which is about the size of a pipe-organ console and costs tens of kilobucks.

   1962, Harry Leland Van Velzer, Physics and chemistry of electronic technology, page 326