dead president
English
Etymology
The presidents whose faces decorate US currency are deceased.
Pronunciation
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Noun
dead president (plural dead presidents)
- (US, slang) A piece of US paper currency.
- 2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 149:
- Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.
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- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, president.
See also
- Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Benjamin, Franklin