Associations to the word «Greenback»

Wiktionary

GREENBACK, noun. (US) Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.
GREENBACK, noun. The United States dollar.
GREENBACK, noun. A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.

Dictionary definition

GREENBACK, noun. A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne