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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a banknote; a bill of paper money.
Although only one-dollar bills have green backs in Canada, this term has been applied to all bills after the usage in the United States, where all bills have green backs.
Quotations
1870
Subscription. Ten Shillings Sterling ($2.50) per annum; greenbacks, $3.
1903
". . . Here's your fifty," he went on, taking a roll of bills from his pocket, and counting out the coveted greenbacks.
1950
Smelly oil-lamps gleamed over hard-eyed men, their drinks and their notched guns, glinted on silver coins, flickered on greenbacks and on the red, black, blue, white and yellow of stacked chips and falling cards.