Meaning
One thousand dollars — 'a grand' is $1,000, and 'five grand' is $5,000. A common money-slang unit for talking about the larger sums of daily life — the rent, a big purchase, a wad of cash — it sits above 'a bill' ($100) in the everyday vocabulary of Jamaican money. Borrowed into local use like much money slang, 'grand' does the plain work of naming a thousand-dollar unit, and it runs through all the talk of earning, spending, saving, and owing that fills a life lived close to the edge of the money.
Examples
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Di rent gone up to twenty grand.
The rent has gone up to twenty thousand dollars.
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Him win five grand pon di Cash Pot.
He won five thousand dollars on the Cash Pot.
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A grand nuh stretch far dese days.
A thousand dollars doesn't go far these days.
Origin
From 'grand' (a thousand); slang for one thousand dollars. See [[bill]], [[stack]].
How it’s used
$1,000 in money slang; 'five grand' = $5,000. See [[bill]], [[paper]].