Here is some names money has been called, this is just a piece of this site,
http://www.fun-with-words.com/money_words.html
there are more things on there if you want to check it out.
The 1920s and 1930s were particularly rich in American slang terms for money, some of which are still in use today. Some terms referred to money's use in purchasing food: bacon (as in bring home), bread, dough, and so on. (One term for counterfeit money was sourdough.) Other terms referred to the green colour of American bills: cabbage, lettuce, kale, folding green, long green.
Rhino was a term first used in 1670. I suspect that jack derives from jackpot, originally referring to the large amounts of money you could win playing a jacks-or-better poker game. Some slang money terms I have no idea of the origin of: mazuma, moolah, oscar, pap, plaster, rivets, scratch, spondulicks. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some monetary slang was invented by Damon Runyan or other writers of the time. [No, Runyan is not a misprint. Damon's father was Alfred Lee Runyan, a storyteller and itinerant printer and publisher of smalltown newspapers. At an early age Runyan followed his father into the newspaper business. At 15 he worked for the Pueblo (Colorado) Evening Press, where he soon became a fully fledged news reporter. When a typographical slip spelt his name Runyon he decided to keep it that way. He became one of the world's favorite short-story writers and humorists. On friendly terms with Al Capone, Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Arnold Rothstein and William Winchell, he gained fame with his tales of the gambling, racing and criminal worlds. One of his best-known works is Guys and Dolls (1932). Runyon's style relied on Broadway slang, outrageous metaphors, and constant use of the present tense. He died in 1946, aged 62.]
Other slang terms for a dollar include ace, bean (as in bean counter), boffo (abbreviation of box office, referring to money collected at theatres), bone, buck, bullet, case note, clam, coconut, fish, frogskin, lizard, peso, rock, scrip, simoleon, and yellowback.
The heavy dollar coin was once known as an iron man, plug, sinker, or wagon wheel.
2007-12-15 17:25:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Greenbacks, Dough, Booty
But seriously just use the word money. It's not cool to actually use those words in public
2007-12-15 17:06:00
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answered by twilight_zone 2
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Dinero is my favorite. There's also greenbacks, Washington's portrait, [some number of] smackers (like saying "I've got fifty smackers right here"), dough, fiver (for five-dollar-bill).
2007-12-15 19:50:48
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answered by Lucian Oldershaw 2
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Do you mean Slang??
Fiver, greenback, dough, five-spot, bill
2007-12-15 17:10:37
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answered by clayinspiration 4
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