kilobucks

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