Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A dollar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dollar.
Wiktionary
- n. US, slang One dollar.
Etymologies
- Most commonly accepted theory: late 19th century macaronic blend of simon ("dollar"), from simon ("sixpence coin") (17th-century British slang), and Napoleon ("French gold coin worth 20 francs, bearing the image of Napoleon III"). Perhaps from New Orleans. Also see simony. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You'll drive into the gas station, play some little game or answer some little crowd sourcing query or survey about consumer habits or whatever, and get some little Linden-dollar type simoleon that will eventually be collected and offset your gas price.”
“But we never went after the simoleon in the toe of the sock under the loose brick in the corner of the kitchen hearth.”
“Of course, with a simoleon that you couldn't cash out to real life, or could cash out only at a hugely unfavorable rate, given your time and labour, and only on the illegal black market.”
“Seriously, if I was Liddy, listening to these asshats who've gone into the red to the tune of $3 trillion over the last six years (not including the stimulus / TARP money) lecture him on how to run a business while he gets paid one simoleon a year, I would have stood up and said”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘simoleon’.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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Show Me the Moolah
Slang terms (mostly American) for money.
dough, lettuce, moolah, rhino, spondulicks, buck, sawbuck, greenback, pony, c-note, grand, thou and 58 more...
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new to me
stridulation, sherd, lees, lacustrine, coir, eruct, dysgenic, labile, glozening, entrainment, grawlix, maledicta balloon and 20 more...
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Virtual Economies
Read Halting State by Charles Stross.
qq coin, gil, adena, credit, gold, platinum, isk, linden, zeny, neopoint, simoleon, mudflation and 4 more...
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old but still juicy
archaic, biblical, long-unused words that are worth reviving
astonied, god wot, saltimbanco, eftsoons, infandous, banderole, cloy, surcease, demesne, windlestraw, contemn, sphalma and 8 more...
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for simoleon.
johnmperry Also used in "Who Shot Roger Rabbit?" Sep 8, 2008
reesetee Also an American slang term for "money" well before the Sims debuted. I didn't realize they picked up the term--funny! :-) Sep 8, 2008
lampbane The unit of currency in the SimCity and Sims games (including The Sims Online). The symbol for a simoleon is §. Sep 7, 2008