subs. (common).—1. A ten pound note; £10: cf. FIVER.
1861. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown at Oxford, xix. ‘No money?’ ‘Not much: perhaps a TENNER.’
1867. M. E. BRADDON, Rupert Godwin, II. i. And you don’t like me well enough to borrow a few TENNERS just to carry on the war with?
2. (thieves’).—Ten years’ imprisonment.
