lookah

n

British

money, wealth. This word, spelled in a variety of ways and which was recorded among London schoolchildren in the mid-1990s, is in fact from the much older term '(filthy) lucre' and has been adopted as a vogue term, probably in ignorance of its origin. (Lucre is Middle English from the Latin lucrum, meaning reward or booty.) In American slang duc-ats is another archaism which has been revived in a similar context.