Money, dough (“cabbage”). Stands as one of the most famous and enduring 1990s-era Russian slang terms for money, specifically paper banknotes (originally referring to green US dollars due to their colour and wrinkled texture resembling cabbage leaves). In modern Russian everyday speech, internet humour, and business slang, it is used as a classic, slightly nostalgic, or humorous synonym for cash.
Pas’ha: а ещё сегодня улыбнул торговец овощами в переходе, который пиарил товар слоганом «меняю капусту на капусту».
Pas’ha: today the vegetable merchant in the pedestrian underpass made me smile, he hawks his products with the slogan “exchange cabbage for dough”.
(bash.org.ru, 07/2010)
