pancrack
pancrack noun: social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.
Noun
pancrack (uncountable)
- Social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.
- It is Pancrack day or so they call it. Dole money or social security which is often more for those who have done no work at all . . . .1971, Delta: A Literary Review from Cambridge, Issues 49-54, p. 38 (Google snippet view)
- She had saved it out of her social security money: the "pancrack" as she contemptuously called it.1982, Pat Barker, Union Street, →ISBN
Synonyms of pancrack
Questions about pancrack
- What does pancrack mean?
- Pancrack means social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.
- What part of speech is pancrack?
- Pancrack is a noun.
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