quid
nounInformal
A British English slang term. Browse all British slang.
What it means
A pound sterling. The plural is also quid, never quids: fifty quid.
In use
It cost me twenty quid.
Have you got a quid for the trolley?
Where it comes from
In use since the 17th century, origin unsettled. The likeliest account points to Latin quid ('what', as in quid pro quo) passing into cant as a word for the necessary consideration.
First attested: 1680s
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- nicker