piastre
Meanings
Noun
1. piastre (one of several historical units of currency) (historical)
2. buck, buckaroo (a Canadian or American dollar) (North America, now colloquial outside Louisiana, formerly official)
3. silver dollar (a type of tropical freshwater fish) (Louisiana)
Examples5
Non, non, c'est juste une joke. Garde-lé, ton vingt piastres.
No, no, that was a joke. Keep it, your twenty bucks.
La peau de cocodrie vaut vingt piastres le pied.
Alligator skin is worth twenty dollars a foot.
Neuf, ça vaut au moins mille piastres, je l'ai eu pour la moitié.
It's worth at least a thousand bucks new; I got it for half that.
Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît.
That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please.
Maudit, ça me coûté deux cents piasses pour faire arranger mon char.
Darn it, it cost me two hundred bucks to get my car fixed.