What is "a score" in money?

BetterThanThou

I'm not quite sure on this one, I've heard a few different definitions, I've heard it was 10 euro, from others I've heard it's 20, from others, it's the cost of one dose of a recreational drug(which would vary with the drug), can anyone help me on this one?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

20

CaptainInsano

I'll have one dose of your finest recreational drug please, my good man.

RobbingBandit

20. Ye Olde English term not a scanger one.

Iwasfrozen

A score is always 20, there's no ambiguity.

Nodster

I'd wager a pony on it's a twenty

biketard

Twenty, and not just for money.

A ha'penny

A score is £20, a pony is £25, a ton is £100.

Source: Only Fools And Horses.

mandrake04

Candie wrote: »

A score is £20, a pony is £25, a ton is £100.

Source: Only Fools And Horses.

£500 monkey and £1000 is a grand

Michael2107

a monkey is 500, and a bag is a grand(bag of sand)

Irish Guitarist

A score is twenty. It has nothing to do with drugs and has been in use for centuries. Abraham Lincoln used it in the Gettysburg Address.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.”

mandrake04

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

A score is twenty. It has nothing to do with drugs and has been in use for centuries. Abraham Lincoln used it in the Gettysburg Address.

Apparently it came from Norse meaning Tally of 20.

Origin Expand
before 1100; (noun) Middle English; late Old English scora, score (plural; singular *scoru) group of twenty (apparently orig. notch) < Old Norse skor notch; (v.) Middle English scoren to incise, mark with lines, tally debts < Old Norse skora to notch, count by tallies; later v. senses derivative of the noun; akin to shear

CrazyRabbit

It's a decent BJ in certain parts.

ArphaRima

Explain a monkey being GBP500 please?
I knew the rest but this one stumps me. I'm guessing some kind of rhyming slang is involved?

jake is right

A Score is 20.'

fluffer

fluffer wrote: »

Explain a monkey being GBP500 please?
I knew the rest but this one stumps me. I'm guessing some kind of rhyming slang is involved?

Apparently Monkey and Pony comes from the Indian rupee notes. They had pictures of animals on them.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_slang

stimpson

A score is an eighth of an ounce. At least it was in my day. Prices may have changed.

keith16

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Egginacup

And in certain circles in the US a $100 is called a benjamin (after Benji Franklin).

And, did you know that when the French ruled Louisiana and New Orleans was a vibrant port for trade and employment and the currency was Francs, and the 10 Franc note had "Dix Francs" printed in the corner, people would say they are going to go south to earn some "dixies", hence Dixieland.

.....and not a lotta people know that!

YFlyer

A Barclay is a ****.

Micky Dolenz

When I lived in London, I had two mates would could speak at length in cockney rhyming slang. T'was great to listen too even if it didn't make eighteen pence a lot of the time.

Remmy

a bag of sand and a monkey up the jacksie

Duck Soup

20. Nothing to do with drugs. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, "three score and ten" means 70.

Duck Soup

YFlyer wrote: »

A Barclay is a ****.

Or if you're older, it was also known as a 'J. Arthur'.

Anyone who attends race meetings will be very familiar with the terms "score", "pony" and "monkey", bookies use them all the time.

Chunners

To me "a score" money wise is having any left at the end of the week after paying rent, bills and groceries

Donkey Oaty

Still in common use in the mainstream press.

E.g. from the Irish Times, August 11th 2014

Initial reports suggested scores of people ended up in the water after a spate of capsizes

Greenmachine

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Still in common use in the mainstream press.

E.g. from the Irish Times, August 11th 2014

Always was and always will be 20 Op.

kjl

Candie wrote: »

A score is £20, a pony is £25, a ton is £100.

Source: Only Fools And Horses.

A Monkey is £500

jonon9

Candie wrote: »

A score is £20, a pony is £25, a ton is £100.

Source: Only Fools And Horses.

I thought a century is £100

SpaceTime

20 in the Gaelic influenced counting system.

The French still use it too

Quatre-vingt-dix ... four-score-ten is 90 for example.

They've officially no word for 80 or 90
And 70 is sixty-ten...

The Belgians added their own to make it normal.

Alun

SpaceTime wrote: »

They've officially no word for 80 or 90
And 70 is sixty-ten...

The Belgians added their own to make it normal.

As far as I remember, septante, octante/huitante and nonante are used commonly in Belgium, Switzerland and I think Canada.

topper75

The Basques, the Albanians, the Welsh....

.... they are all fuppin at it sure. 'Tis the ancient way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal

ectoraige

It's exactly 350/17.5.

SpaceTime

Alun wrote: »

As far as I remember, septante, octante/huitante and nonante are used commonly in Belgium, Switzerland and I think Canada.

But not in France where they like to stick to the Gaelic-inspired proper and awkward way because it's fun to confuse language students & tourists.

Vive le quatre-vingts !

refusetolose

a blowjob

SpaceTime

refusetolose wrote: »

a blowjob

You're not factoring in inflation (pardon the pun).

Reoil

Yep, it's not just for money. "Four score and five" would be an old-fashioned way to say 85.

snubbleste

I thought it came from ár dteanga dhilís
As in tabhair dom scór punt Or bhain siad amach scór pointe

The_Captain

Egginacup wrote: »

And in certain circles in the US a $100 is called a benjamin (after Benji Franklin).

Yes I also listen to rap music

B.A._Baracus

A thread about slang? how could it not be posted :

topper75

snubbleste wrote: »

I thought it came from ár dteanga dhilís

Nó ar tháinig sé chugainne ón Béarla? N'fheadar i ndáiríre.

LoganRice

A score = 20

ectoraige

Michael2107 wrote: »

a monkey is 500, and a bag is a grand(bag of sand)

What if you have a bag of monkeys, is that half a rock?

Dtp1979

Tenner says it's 20

Capt'n Midnight

1388 John Wyclif's Bible, Leviticus 12:5, "Thre scoor and sixe daies."

http://wesley.nnu.edu/fileadmin/imported_site/wycliffe/Lev.txt

Sotheli if sche childith a female, sche schal be vnclene twei woukis, bi the custom of flowyng of vnclene blood, and `thre scoor and sixe daies sche schal dwelle in the blood of her clensyng.

YFlyer

Duck Soup wrote: »

Or if you're older, it was also known as a 'J. Arthur'.

Tempering his mallet to hit the gong.