dollar-sign eyes
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Greediness, or a moment of greediness, for money.
Example Sentences
- "“Damn,” he said to no one in particular but looking at Trixie with dollar-sign eyes, the hardness displayed toward her softening. “We sure 'nuf gonna be seven-figure niggas, huh?”"
- "Like other big cities he'd traveled to, the dollar-sign eyes of the young women couldn't resist staring at the fancy automobile he drove."
Etymology
Related to the convention of drawing cartoon characters with their eyes replaced by dollar signs in a moment of greed.