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get-penny

get-penny noun: something that makes money; a financially successful affair.

Noun

get-penny (plural get-pennies)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
    • thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the...
    • if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them1728, Daniel Defoe, Augusta Triumphans

Synonyms of get-penny

Forms of get-penny

pluralget-pennies
alternative formgetpenny

Questions about get-penny

What does get-penny mean?
Get-penny means something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
What part of speech is get-penny?
Get-penny is a noun.
What is the plural of get-penny?
The plural of get-penny is get-pennies.

Words near get-penny in the dictionary

  1. get-out clauses
  2. get-out-of-jail-free card
  3. get-out-of-jail-free cards
  4. get-outs
  5. get-pennies
  6. get-penny
  7. get-readies
  8. get-ready
  9. get-rich-quick
  10. get-rich-quicker
  11. get-rich-quickers

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