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get-penny

noun

Definitions

  1. Something that makes money

    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.
    • if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them

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