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tanner
noun
in pre-decimalization currency, sixpence, 6d; a coin of that value UK, 1811
Inflation has rendered the conversion from 6d to 2½p meaningless.- Only last week I give that girl a pair of shoes cost me seventeen and a tanner, as God’s my judge. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 188, 1945
- You could never tell whether your old man had a tanner or twenty quid in his pocket. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 30, 1998
- — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 202, 2000
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