c-note

noun

noun

Etymology From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.

US, Informal A one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote.

If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred.1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:

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