Definition of tenner

tenner    

noun

• ten pounds sterling.

  Sign this petition to put Alan Turing on the tenner.

  • See more words with the same meaning: money.

  Last edited on Oct 26 2012. Submitted by Matthew R. from Blackpool, United Kingdom on May 31 2004.

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Other terms relating to 'money':
dead presidents	Definitions include: money.
fiver	Definitions include: a five dollar bill.
peanuts	Definitions include: very little money.
jack	Definitions include: a five pound note.
buck	Definitions include: unattractive.
six figures	Definitions include: 100,000 units of a currency to just below 1,000,000 units.
smart money, the	Definitions include: in a betting situation, the option most likely to win.
bill	Definitions include: one hundred dollars.
P	Definitions include: pure methamphetamine.
make it rain	Definitions include: to throw paper currency into the air above or near a group of people, so that they can grab it.
two bits	Definitions include: a quarter.
Michigan bank roll	Definitions include: a wad of currency in small denominations with a large denomination bill around the outside to make it look like more money.
big one	Definitions include: $1,000.
a dollar three eightyfive	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
knot	Definitions include: a roll of money.
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Other terms relating to 'ten':
10	Definitions include: a very attractive person.
10-20	Definitions include: "What is your 20?" i.e. "What is your current location?"
10-2 2-10	Definitions include: an unattractive female met while drinking alcohol at a bar, and then taken back to one's residence to spend the night.
10:30	Definitions include: time to ingest methamphetamine; "tweaker time".
10-4	Definitions include: "message understood."
10 south	Definitions include: When you are on your way down to your hands and knees on the floor...sick.
2-10, the	Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
hang 10	Definitions include: to ride a surf board with all 10 of one's toes hanging over the edge of the board.
ID-10-T	Definitions include: an error code used to refer to user error.
like 10 motherf*ckers	Definitions include: This phrase got passed around Fort Knox by G.I.s and slowly over-used in the surrounding towns and counties.
perfect 10	Definitions include: a very attractive person.
perfect ten	Definitions include: a very attractive person.
ten	Definitions include: a very attractive person.
ten pounds of sh*t in a five-pound bag	Definitions include: anything displeasing.
ten-spot	Definitions include: a ten-dollar bill.

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