pound sign

American  

noun

1. a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.

2. a symbol (#) for “pound” or “pounds” as a unit of weight or mass.

   20# bond paper stock.

3. the symbol (#) used for various purposes.

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Example Sentences

After his unexpected shift into the macabre, when he "saw something terrible, I saw pound signs".

From BBC

"Myself and Clive's family and friends are heartbroken about the loss of him. You can never put a pound sign on anybody's life."

From BBC

In the distance: a brick castle labeled “FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE,” decorated with a hypnotic swirl of dollar, euro and pound signs.

From New York Times

Those patients expecting surgery may be shocked by how the current system could encourage those who treat them to see pound signs rather than patients.

From The Guardian

In 2007, not long after Twitter launched, an early adopter named Chris Messina came up with the idea of retrofitting pound signs into an ad-hoc system for sorting through the platform’s rising volume of tweets.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• hash mark
• hash sign
• number sign