get-penny
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get-penny (plural get-pennies)
- (colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair.
- Synonyms: money-spinner, moneymaker
- 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.
- 1728, Danielv Defoe, Augusta Triumphans:
- 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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- “get-penny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.