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green goods

green goods noun: worthless material, such as sawdust or green paper, covertly substituted for supposed counterfeit currency being sold to a dupe.

Noun

green goods pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Worthless material, such as sawdust or green paper, covertly substituted for supposed counterfeit currency being sold to a dupe.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see green, goods.

Questions about green goods

What does green goods mean?
Green goods means worthless material, such as sawdust or green paper, covertly substituted for supposed counterfeit currency being sold to a dupe.
What part of speech is green goods?
Green goods is a noun.

Words near green goods in the dictionary

  1. green glasses
  2. green goblin
  3. green goddess
  4. Green Goddesses
  5. green gold
  6. green goods
  7. green goose
  8. green gown
  9. green gowns
  10. green gram
  11. green grams

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