Money Slang
The Birds
The "B"s
Movie To Stage
In the Dictionary
100
Benjamins are slang for these
Hundred dollar bills
100
The world's largest bird's egg is this one's, reaching 6 inches around & 3 pounds
an ostrich
100
Overdue, like some birthday congratulations
Belated
100
Songs in this "ogreish" musical include "Donkey Pot Pie" & "Freak Flag"
Shrek
100
"Ditch... used for military defense often with the excavated dirt thrown up in front"
a Trench
200
Maybe from their shells being used as currency, these bivalves are slang for money
clams
200
Jesus tells his Apostles going out into the world to be as harmless as these birds
doves
200
The pastry seen here gets its name from its resemblance to an animal's foot
a bear claw
200
This film starring Julia Roberts & Richard Gere moved from Beverly Hills to Broadway
Pretty Woman
200
"Dense", or "exceeding 90 degrees but being less than 180 degrees"
obtuse
300
This phrase is commonly understood in America for one quarter
two bits
300
This bird with up to 70 wingbeats per second camouflages its nest with lichens
a hummingbird
300
The name of this lawn bowling game is Italian for "wooden balls"
bocce
300
This musical centers on a boy from a family of coal miners who wants to be a ballet dancer
Billy Elliot
300
"To douse with a liquor (such as brandy, rum or cognac) and ignite"
flambé
400
An item might cost you a few of these basic monetary units of Israel, literally or figuratively
shekels
400
Birds of prey are also called these, from the Latin for "to seize"
raptors
400
A true New Yorker knows all the goods on all the shelves in his favorite this corner store
a bodega
400
This musical says it was "lovingly ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail"'
Spamalot
400
This -ism is a "relapse into criminal behavior"
recidivism
500
Slang for a 10-dollar bill, it's also an alternate name for a frame on which to cut wood
a sawbuck
500
Here's the male one of these ruffed birds putting on a display for the ladies
a grouse
500
This stroke also called a reverse solidus divides a directory & a subdirectory in some operating systems
a backslash
500
Tina Fey wrote the book for this musical adaptation about surviving high school cliques
Mean Girls
500
"Of or relating to a church parish... provincial"
parochial