DictionarygrandThousand dollars
noun

grand

One thousand dollars.

The used car costs about six grand.

Etymology

Grand means large or impressive. Slang applied that suggestion of a substantial sum to one thousand dollars, fixing it as a monetary unit in informal speech.

More examples

  • He saved a grand for the trip.
  • They paid three grand to repair the roof.
  • A hundred grand was more than the project could afford.

Forms

grand

Similar words

thousand
The neutral number rather than the informal money term.
thou
Another informal thousand; grand is especially common for money.