long green

noun, Slang.

paper money; cash.

Origin

1890-95, Americanism

Examples from the web for long green

And there it was: a thin metal tube, with a long green wire protruding and sticking into the pavement, almost certainly a bomb.
long green insects are eating the leaves off my tree.
In some years, bean plants may be injured by inch long green wiggling caterpillars that riddle the leaves.

Slang definitions & phrases for long green

noun phrase

Paper money; bills; folding money: that dear old affectionately regarded long green

[1891+; perhaps influenced by earlier sense ''home-grown, home-cured tobacco'']