The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PENNY
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More clues leading to the result PENNY
- A bit like a Quaker?
- Mean person who achieves little success as a pickpocket?
- Remuneration offered to a thinking person?
- Copper like a writer?
- Tin can in US state
- Write extremely neatly for money
- Woman with very little money
- With 1A, pre-decimal coin discovered in Lancaster
- One who takes after writer, New York tightwad
- Old bicycle in bits?
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What does PENNY mean?
PENNY noun- In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
- In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
- In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
- In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ยข.
- In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
- A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
- Money in general.
- To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
- To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.