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Meaning of William McKinley | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A United States five-hundred-dollar bill.

US, rare, slang

Examples

““Well then, Mr. Ganoff, I have here ten William McKinleys to match them,” handing the five-hundred-dollar bills to Pete.”
“If you had four Ulysses S. Grants, two Andrew Jacksons, a William McKinley, and five Abe Lincolns in your pocket, how much money would you have?”
“Madden reached into a drawer, pulled out a stack of crisp $500 Federal Reserve notes and counted out twenty five thousand dollars and pushed it across the desk. “There you go, Nicholas, fifty William McKinleys.[…]””

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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