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red cent - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Insignificant value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A copper penny.
- noun US, colloquial A very small amount of money.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something of little value
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Probably from the color of the copper in which the coin was minted.
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Words with the same meaning
- C
- C-note
- G
- G-note
- a continental
- a curse
- a damn
- a darn
- a hoot
- bagatelle
- bauble
- bean
- bibelot
- bit
- brass farthing
- buck
- button
- cartwheel
- cent
- century
- copper
- curio
- dime
- dollar
- dollar bill
- farce
- farthing
- feather
- fifty cents
- fig
- fin
- fish
- five cents
- five hundred dollars
- five-dollar bill
- five-hundred-dollar bill
- five-spot
- fiver
- fleabite
- folderol
- four bits
- fribble
- frippery
- frogskin
- gaud
- gewgaw
- gimcrack
- grand
- hair
- half G
- half a C
- half dollar
- half grand
- halfpenny
- hill of beans
- hundred-dollar bill
- iron man
- jest
- joke
- kickshaw
- knickknack
- knickknackery
- mill
- minikin
- mockery
- molehill
- nickel
- penny
- peppercorn
- picayune
- pin
- pinch of snuff
- pinprick
- quarter
- rap
- row of pins
- rush
- sawbuck
- shit
- silver dollar
- skin
- smacker
- snap
- sneeshing
- sou
- straw
- ten cents
- ten-spot
- tenner
- thousand dollars
- thousand-dollar bill
- toy
- trifle
- trinket
- triviality
- tuppence
- twenty-dollar bill
- twenty-five cents
- two bits
- two cents
- two-dollar bill
- two-spot
- twopence
- whim-wham
- yard
rolig commented on the word red cent
"The devil only knows where she gets her booze since she never has a red cent!"
– Slavko Grum, An Event in the Town of Goga
December 4, 2007