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C-note

slang A $100 bill. Primarily heard in US. In an attempt to impress his date, Fred pulled a C-note out of his pocket to pay for dinner. She stole 20 C-notes from the register and got on a bus to Mexico. Yo, where'd you get a C-note? I know you didn't make that much working a few hours at the bicycle shop.
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C-note

and C-spot
n. a one-hundred-dollar bill. (see also century note.) You owe me three C-notes! That guy wanted a C-spot to fix my muffler!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The paper on which a one hundred-dollar bill is printed is worth very little; the value of the C-note lies only in what it can be exchanged for.
Wish you could still pick up a Model 99 for under a C-note (right)?
I was so ticked off when a guy named Clyde beat me to new-in-the-box Ruger Mark III .22-caliber target pistol for a C-note. It was the only nice piece around that day.
- Sleuthing for C-Note, a scavenger hunt with clues regarding the library's history and current offerings, features 20 teams of people 10 and older.
The spare magazines, assuming they have lanyard loops, are worth another C-note or so each.
Patton plays a flashy playa known as C-Note, gangsta rapper extraordinaire.
NISSAN will have about six new cars at the Tokyo Show including the C-Note (pictured above), the Redigo (pictured below) and the Serenity.
It includes everything you need to build up an AR pistol with a 10" barrel except the lower receiver and a bolt carrier group (which'll set you back another C-note).
With their numbers whittled down, the siblings, C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar), Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) and Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) arrived at a nearby landing strip to catch a plane, but the arrival of the police left them little choice but to run for the hills.
If this gun is representative and not a specially selected "test gun," then the retail price of $1,346 is a stunning bargain and the extra C-note might not be needed.
It was when we found ourselves running $150 worth of ammo thru a $600 pistol over a $200 chronograph while wearing around $300 worth of eye and ear protection that the concept of a tactical pen costing just under a C-note didn't seem like such a stretch.
emailed me that he believes muskie hunters from neighboring Wisconsin should be taxed an extra C-note ($100) just to allow them the privilege of throwing their jumbo lures into the vast areas of the Fox Chain.
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