hamilton
n. countablen. a ten-dollar bill in the United States. It has the face of Alexander Hamilton on it, so people use his name as a fun way to talk about money.
n. a ten-dollar banknote in United States currency. Named after Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, whose portrait appears on the bill.
The sandwich and coffee cost me a Hamilton.
He reached into his wallet and pulled out a Hamilton to pay for the taxi ride.
While larger denominations are often preferred for significant transactions, a single Hamilton remains the standard currency for a quick lunch in many American cities.
From Old English *Hameldūne, from hamel (“blunt, flat-topped”) + dūne (“hill”). The Scottish surname is from the place in Leicestershire. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Alexander Hamilton featured on it.
Informal slang; almost exclusively used in the United States.