SAWBUCK

When I first time read this term, wondered if its the sibling of a duck ..!!..:-)

But surprisingly, its a financial term. Lets see what does it mean..

SAWBUCK = SAW + BUCK

Where BUCK is a slang commonly used for currency in US and SAW itself associates to a carpenter. So, can you guess..?

Ok, check out the answer:-

Sawbuck is a Slang term for the US ten dollar paper currency. The slang is derived from the Roman numeral for ten. "X". The "X" looks like the shape of a Sawbuck; a device used to hold wood in place for sawing it into pieces and so the slang formed SAW + BUCK = SAWBUCK.