duckets

duckets
n pl
American
money, dollars. An appropriation of the archaic 'ducats' (Venetian gold coins used all over Renaissance Europe) heard in black street argot and campus slang, and high-school slang from the 1990s.
► 'He earns minor duckets in a thankless job.' (Clueless, US film, 1995)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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