Benjamin Franklin

English

Etymology

From the portrait of Benjamin Franklin featured on them.

Noun

Benjamin Franklin (plural Benjamin Franklins)

1. (slang) A United States one-hundred-dollar bill.

   Synonyms: Ben, Ben Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

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

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

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

     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.

   • 2017, Carolyn Mulford, Show Me the Sinister Snowman, Warrensburg, Mo.: Cave Hollow Press, →ISBN, page 220:

     I took note of a stack of Benjamin Franklins in Horse’s overnight bag and a top-of-the-line computer on his dresser.

See also

• dead president
• George Washington, Washington
• Lincoln
• Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton
• Jackson

Further reading

• United States one-hundred-dollar bill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia