dollarbuck

English

Etymology

From dollar +‎ buck. Popularised by the 2018 Australian animated children's TV series Bluey, but attested earlier (see quotations).

Noun

dollarbuck (plural dollarbucks)

1. (slang, often humorous) A unit of currency.
   • 2011 November 9, Tzion, Twitter‎^[1]:

     Man if I had a million dollarbucks I would totally take advantage of Steam's Midweek ARMA sale. Of course, I could just normalbuy them.

   • 2015 November 13, Hanjabanja, Twitter‎^[2]:

     Lord Asquid and I donated some dollarbucks in support of @PanCAN's work for #WPCD

   • 2021 April, Brigid Lowry, “November: Living Simply”, in A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: & Other Essays, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 1 (of chapter):

     No amount of shopping truly helps with emptiness, loneliness or sorrow. Better to face these emotions and allow them to come and to go. No need to spend any dollarbucks and, ultimately, it's liberating.

   • 2022 June, Cian Cruise, Dad Bod: Portraits of Pop Culture Papas, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Later Rambo movies became so horrifically violent because they forgot that there was any other component to this poor Vietnam vet. They were bleached away by the dollarbucks piled up in Stallone's swimming pool.

   • 2023 March 10, derangedspazz, Twitter‎^[3]:

     Furthemore Dealers hall is open!! ✨🐾 Come say hi, stare at my art! Maybe throw me a dollarbuck-

See also

• dollarydoo