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Noun: clams klamz Usage: US
- Informal term for money
- boodle, bread, cabbage [US], dinero [N. Amer], dough, gelt, kale [US], lettuce [US], lolly [Brit], lucre, loot, moolah [N. Amer], pelf [archaic], scratch, shekels, simoleons [US], sugar, wampum [N. Amer], wonga [Brit], brass [Brit], moola [N. Amer], mazuma [US], dosh [Brit] Noun: clam klam- Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
- [US] A piece of paper money worth one dollar
- dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, single [US] Verb: clam (clammed,clamming) klam- Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
Type of: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill [N. Amer], bivalve, collect, Federal Reserve note [US], garner, gather, government note [US], greenback [US], lamellibranch, money, note, pelecypod, pull together, shellfish Encyclopedia: Clams Clam, Charente-Maritime Clam Clam, Virginia Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie |