get-penny
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get-penny (plural get-pennies)
- (colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
- 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 page):
- 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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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for get-penny in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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