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Shinplaster   Listen
noun
Shinplaster  n.  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. (U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shinplaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... Just as sure as ye let that fire reach this ranch and harm those young leddies,—old Harvey's daughters that never did ye a harm in the world,—every dollar in the safe goes whack into the fire, and sorra a shinplaster will you have for all your pains. Ain't that so, paymasther? Shure the government ought to be mighty glad of the chance of saving all those promises ...
— Foes in Ambush • Charles King



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