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kilobuck

kilobuck noun: a thousand dollars.

Noun

kilobuck (plural kilobucks)

  1. (informal, plural-normally) A thousand dollars.
    • Of course such a leak detector, responsive to a single element, is simpler, more compact, and less expensive than the full-fledged mass spectroscope, which is about the size of a pipe-organ console and costs tens of kilobucks.1962, Harry Leland Van Velzer, Physics and chemistry of electronic technology, page 326

Forms of kilobuck

pluralkilobucks

Origin of kilobuck

From kilo- + buck.

Questions about kilobuck

What does kilobuck mean?
Kilobuck means a thousand dollars.
What part of speech is kilobuck?
Kilobuck is a noun.
What is the plural of kilobuck?
The plural of kilobuck is kilobucks.

Words near kilobuck in the dictionary

  1. kilobecquerels
  2. kilobequerel
  3. kilobinary
  4. kilobit
  5. kilobits
  6. kilobuck
  7. kilobucks
  8. kilobyte
  9. kilobytes
  10. kilocal
  11. kilocaloric

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