In lunfardo is ticket, money in general. It can come from the French bijou (biyú "jewel, something valuable") or more surely from the Piedmont begieuia ( "engraved, as in the banknotes") .
Emilio V. Guzman
BIYUYA : currency, silver ; corresponding to the slang or calo used by drug traffickers ( mariguanero )
Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez
It's the same as biyuyo. It means money, currency, flow, silver, wool, monis. It is the name of a Tango by Astor Piazzolla.
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