Which term is a slang for British currency?

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Which term is a slang for British currency?

In British English, money is often referred to informally as a "quid" when talking about pounds. The official unit is the pound sterling, symbol £, with 100 pence in a pound. People say things like “twenty quid” to mean twenty pounds, especially in casual conversations. So the slang term you’re looking for is the one that’s used in everyday speech to mean pounds. Dollar and euro are names for other currencies (US dollars and euros), not slang for British money. The formal term for the British currency is pound (or pound sterling), whereas "quid" is the informal slang version.

In British English, money is often referred to informally as a "quid" when talking about pounds. The official unit is the pound sterling, symbol £, with 100 pence in a pound. People say things like “twenty quid” to mean twenty pounds, especially in casual conversations. So the slang term you’re looking for is the one that’s used in everyday speech to mean pounds.

Dollar and euro are names for other currencies (US dollars and euros), not slang for British money. The formal term for the British currency is pound (or pound sterling), whereas "quid" is the informal slang version.

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