c-note

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(banknote): From the Roman numeral C (100) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.

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c-note (plural c-notes)

  1. (US, informal) A one-hundred dollar banknote.
    • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
      If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred.
  2. (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.

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