Crossword-Solution: GREENBACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Greenback | n. | One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “GREENBACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| POLITICAL party (1874-88 USA) | 1 answer |
| Legal-tender bill, slangily | 1 answer |
| Legal-tender bill | 1 answer |
| Legal tender, slangily | 1 answer |
| Independent party of 1874 | 1 answer |
| Federal Reserve Note | 1 answer |
| Dollar bill, informally | 1 answer |
| Dollar bill, e.g. ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues have in common | 1 answer |
| A U.S. legal-tender note | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN political group | 1 answer |
| AMERICAN political group (1874-88) | 1 answer |
| ten-dollar bill | 3 answers |
| Simoleon | 6 answers |
| BILL of exchange | 6 answers |
| Dollar bill | 9 answers |
| Banknote | 13 answers |
| Paper Money | 18 answers |
| Note | 66 answers |
| Buck | 66 answers |
| Money | 74 answers |
| Bill | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GREENBACK (5)
Will you accept this toward making it good?” He drew from his portemonnaie a five-dollar greenback, as he spoke, and offered it to Mrs.
For that Injin he fled The next day to his band; And we found William spread Very loose on the strand, With a peaceful-like smile on his features, And a dollar greenback in his hand; Which the same, when rolled out, We observed, with surprise, Was what he, no doubt, Thought the number and prize-- Them figures in red in the corner, Which the number of notes specifies.
But if we should catch them, and I should let them go, ‘Dad would give me h--!’” FATHER OF THE “GREENBACK.” Don Piatt, a noted journalist of Washington, told the story of the first proposition to President Lincoln to issue interest-bearing notes as currency, as follows: “Amasa Walker, a distinguished financier of New England, suggested that notes issued directly from the Government to the people, as currency, should bear interest.
There are some of the greatest geese in the Cabinet I have ever seen--enough to tax the patience of Job.” A GREENBACK LEGEND.
DEAR COLONEL DICK:--I have long determined to make public the origin of the greenback and tell the world that it is Dick Taylor's creation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1968–2020).