I am wondering if there is any French slang for dollar besides "balle"? I want to talk about American dollar exactly. Not a substitute for franc or euro and not piasse as said in Quebec. Thanks!
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3In France, nobody uses American (or Canadian) dollars, so no need to have slang word for it.– XouDoFeb 13, 2023 at 15:09
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One that comes to mind, and that I have both heard people use and encountered in books, is dolluche, coined using the -iche/-oche/-uche ending, which belongs to a class of suffixes popularly used to create slang versions of ordinary words. Examples of more common words with such endings are amerloque (‘American’, ‘Yank’) and sourdingue (‘totally deaf’).
There is also bifton vert (bifton being slang for banknote and also written biffeton), but I have the impression that it is used much less than dolluche.
