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English

Etymology

From ten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

tenner (plural tenners)

  1. (informal, UK, Ireland) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
    • 2016, Rob Eastaway & Mike Askew, "Maths on the Go: 101 Fun Ways to Play with Maths", page 40:
      [...] or, if you're feeling brave, a tenner. Tell your child they have a chance to win the fiver if they can [...]
    • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:
      The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
    • 2023 March 5, Miranda Sawyer, quoting Jason Williamson, “Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      I’ve visited Eton, there’s loads of places like it, and if that’s all you know, then you’ve definitely not had to worry about pulling a tenner out of the bank…
  2. (film, slang) A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
    • 2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 11:
      The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.
  3. A tennis shoe.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tenner m or f

  1. indefinite plural of tann

Verb

tenner

  1. present of tenne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

tenner f

  1. indefinite plural of tann

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

tenner

  1. present tense of tenne

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