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dollar sign

noun

  1. the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dollar sign1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

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Example Sentences

They had intended riding along the Dollar Sign road, past Talpers's and the agency, and back to their camp.

Also she did not like to ride past the hill on the Dollar Sign road, with its hints of unsolved mystery.

All this was printed, except the figures "41,000," even the dollar-sign.

Take, for instance, the dollar sign ($), which every one knows and loves—to a more or less extent.

The Dollar Sign is too far off the main road to admit of that theory.

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