tenner
Americannoun
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tenners
plural
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a 10-dollar bill.
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British. a 10-pound note.
noun
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a ten-pound note
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the sum of ten pounds
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a ten-dollar bill
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Etymology
Origin of tenner
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"It's not a show per se. People can just come in, give us a tenner and stay as long as they want," said WAW co-owner "Rowdy" Ricky Knight.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
GMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway 2% was "worth less than a tenner a week extra for staff earning under £25,000 a year" and was therefore "neither credible nor acceptable".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2022
For a while people would come up to me in Swindon and say they’d seen me on TV, and a few people got in touch online cheekily asking for a fiver or a tenner.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2019
He said: "Then I remembered I still owed him a tenner so I messaged Toni instead."
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019
The only money I have is a tenner I borrowed from Cathy, and I need to make that last until I’ve summoned up the courage to ask my mother for a loan.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
More than £28bn in old fivers, tenners, £20 and even £50 notes have not been cashed in.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
They're due in an hour so Dormon gathers tenners from those who can spare them.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
The Magpies are also counting out £3.5m in used tenners, which they will offer to Nowrwich City in exchange for East Anglian cult hero Grant Holt.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2011
The coalition's case is that Labour behaved like the pools winners of yesteryear, showering tenners around like confetti.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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