threepenny bit
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threepenny bit (plural threepenny bits)
- (historical) Former (pre-decimalisation) British and Irish coins worth three old pennies.
- 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 1:
- All day he worked, cutting out pennies and shillings and half-crowns and threepenny-bits.
- 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 1:
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A woman's breast; a tit.
- 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 86:
- All these skinny modern chicks with their perky threepenny bits do nothing for me.