grand n.
(orig. US) 1000, usu. dollars or pounds; thus half-(a-)grand, $500.
How I Became a Detective 89: A ‘grand’ is a thousand dollars. | ||
God’s Man 376: Yes, sir, one great chance to grab ourselves about a hundred grands – grands, I said, grands. | ||
Nightmare Town (2001) 141: I’ve been slipped half a grand to bump off the girl. | ‘Assistant Murderer’ in||
London and its Criminals 34: When they got back she put the screw on him to the tune of a ‘grand’. | ||
Man’s Grim Justice 38: I should [...] accuse him of trying to make my wife and then demand five gran (five thousand dollars) hush money. [Ibid.] 98: We didn’t expect to get over eight or ten gran. | ||
Green Ice (1988) 69: Two hundred grand is a lot of coin. | ||
Gangster Stories Oct. n.p.: ‘Here’s the money [...] Five grand, cash’. | ‘Snowbound’ in||
One-Way Ride 32: He squandered [...] ‘grands,’ which were $1,000 bills. | ||
Opium Addiction in Chicago 200: Half a Grand $500.000 in paper money. | ||
🌐 ‘Well, rat,’ Jimmy snarled and whipped out the necklace, ‘hand over thirty five gran, quick, or I’ll fill you full of lead.’. | ‘Overcoat Bennie’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project||
Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 234: You can have a grand, all right. But no rocks for me. | ||
Sun. Herald (Sydney) 8 June 9/3: The underworld has an extensive vocabulary of financial terms. Among those recorded by Detective Doyle are: [...] ‘spot’ or ‘century,’ £100; ‘monkey,’ £500; ‘grand,’ £1,000. | in||
Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 100: I’ll wire you a Grand, the Grand you won off of me. | ||
Crazy Kill 86: You were going to put up ten grand for him to open that store. | ||
(con. 1920s) Burglar to the Nobility 71: When she learned that I’d disposed of all that eight grand, she had a good deal to say. | ||
Street Players 105: I could just see you putting up ten grand without us coming up with no money. | ||
Picture Palace 37: Some characters have lenses that cost three grand, maybe more. | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] He reckons he’ll do it for a grand. | ‘Wanted’||
Up the Cross 36: ‘The whole deal is gonna cost a grand, exact’. | (con. 1959)||
Skin Tight 48: For fifteen grand they don’t ask, they hire lawyers. | ||
Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Give me the gun back and I’ll tell you where to find ten grand [...] Ten grand. Notes. Old notes. | ||
Observer 10 Jan. 14: Offer the middleman two grand and see what happens. | ||
Layer Cake 5: A kilo of very high-grade snorting cocaine [...] is gonna cost the guy I sell it to twenty-seven and a half grand. | ||
Intractable [ebook] We only got a couple of grand. | ||
Pigeon English 48: A grand is a thousand. | ||
Decent Ride 129: A hundred grand for a fuckin boatil ay whisky...? | ||
Blood Miracles : Nathalie skimmed ten percent per pill off the top and left me and her with twenty-five grand. | ||
Peace 33: ‘[K]nocked off a bookie [...] got away with close to thirty grand’. | ||
Bobby March Will Live Forever 302: ‘[S]he’s gone now [...] And she’s taken fifteen fucking grand of my money with her’. | ||
Secret Hours 13: [P]lus a grand in cash and two prepaid credit cards worth 5,000 US dollars and 5,000 euros. |