frogskin

noun

slang

1

: a piece of paper money

especially : a dollar bill

2

frogskins plural : money

… people shell out … frogskins to fly to Thailand …

—Edward Hoagland, Outside, March 1995

Word History

Etymology

so called from the green back

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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