Wiktionary
n. 1 punctuation symbol '''$''', used to indicate a price in dollars. 2 (context programming English) in certain languages (such as Perl or PHP), to indicate a variable. 3 (context programming English) in certain languages, used to indicate a hexadecimal constant. 4 (context programming English) in certain languages, used to indicate a constant. 5 (context programming English) in certain languages (such as BASIC), to indicate a variable or a constant containing text (a ''string'') as opposed to a number. 6 (context programming English) in regular expressions, used to indicated the end of the string/line.
WordNet
n. a symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him" [syn: dollar, dollar mark]
a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars [syn: dollar mark]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dollar sign".
Meanwhile, upstairs, Kelp and Chefwick were filling their pockets with earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, watches, tiepins, a golden dollar sign money clip clutching nearly eight hundred dollars, and whatever other sparkly items attracted their magpie eyes.
And when you reach the end, when you're ready to quit, don't tell them, just chalk a dollar sign on the pedestal of Nat Taggart's statue—.
It was ironical that the topmost ornament on this plaque was the device IHS, with the letters so curiously interwoven that they looked like nothing so much as a dollar sign.
In fact, whenever I see your incredibly youthful countenance staring at me from beneath the dollar sign, I feel secure.
The woman rolled her eyes up to heaven, drew a dollar sign in the air and pointed to her cleavage.
A cartoon tacked to the notice board spelled it out: Mickey Cohen wearing a Jew skullcap with a dollar sign affixed to the top, dangling two uniformed Sheriff’.
He had a silver money clip in the shape of a dollar sign, worn from long use, with four hundred and twenty dollars in it.
I started making a fuss and the manager came out to explain that obvious I was a newcomer to Mexico and didn't realize that the dollar sign down here meant pesos and not American dollars.
There they were, a star cut out of the check itself, a dollar sign and 25 followed by another star.
Three or four years ago the thought would have annoyed him, but now he was accustomed to the imaginary dollar sign, tattooed on his forehead.
He carried his lucky money clip, the oversize silver dollar sign he’.
I went to church once and sat beside a duck with a white waistcoat and chop whiskers, who wore the dollar sign sticking out so thick all over him that you couldn't see anything else.