Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shekels
1 sense of shekels
Sense 1
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum -- (informal terms for money)
=> money -- (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shekel
1 sense of shekel
Sense 1
shekel -- (the basic unit of money in Israel)
=> Israeli monetary unit -- (monetary unit in Israel)