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funny money
noun- counterfeit or play currency US, 1938
- I tore open the bandana! It was a dummy loaded with funny-money. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 16, 1979
- I will show you my ten grand buy money before you show me the funny money. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 5, 1981
- Tom was a Geordie whose speciality was funny money[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 148, 2002
- during the Vietnam war, military payment certificates US
The certificates were handed out to the military instead of currency to prevent black market use of the US dollar. Denominations of the certificates ranged from five cents to 20 dollars. - — Time, p. 34, 19 December 1965
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 20, 1968
- The boy was counting MPC, Military Payment Certirficates, GI funny money, which he stuffed into the pockets of his shorts. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 40, 1977
- any foreign currency UK, 1984
A resolutely English coinage, disregarding Scottish notes and sneering at the Euro. - the scrip issued in Alberta by the Canadian Social Credit party, which advocated free credit and monetary reform; the party became known as the “funny-money party” CANADA
- Solon Low, provincial treasurer in Alberta’s first Social Credit Government, later leader of the “funny-money” party’s national representation in Parliament, returned to Raymond High School. — Time (Canadian edition), p. 3, 15 September 1958
- Real Caouette [advocated] the Aberhart free credit or funny-money policies in Quebec. — Toronto Globe and Mail, p. 7, 28 February 1963
- promotional coupons issued by casinos to match money bets US
- — Victor H. Royer, Casino Gamble Talk, p. 57, 2003
- scrip used in place of case in strip bars US
- They pay you directly, but if they run out of money they can waddle up to the bar and get funny money on their credit cards. — Katherine Frank, G-Strings and Sympathy, p. xvi, 2002
- A contemporary parallel is the “funny money” used in some gentlemen’s clubs to pay strippers. Clubs take their cut at the time the funny money is cashed in by the dancer. — Melissa Ditmore, The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, p. 69, 2006
- The dancers would have to kick 10 to 20 percent of the funny money they received back to the club as additional payment. — Joaquin Garcia, Making Jack Falcone, p. 72, 2008
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