Get-penny

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something that makes money; a financially successful affair. colloquial, dated

    "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."

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money-spinnermoneymaker

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"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."

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