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funny money
funny moneyn. Informal 1. Currency or money that is counterfeit or worthless, or whose value is otherwise illusory.2. Money from an illegitimate source: funny money discovered in a politician's campaign fund.funny money n 1. (Currencies) a sum of money so large as to be considered unreal 2. (Currencies) counterfeit money 3. (Currencies) derogatory foreign currency fun′ny mon`ey
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Slang. 1. counterfeit currency. 2. currency of little value, as of a nation whose currency has been artificially inflated or recently devaluated. [1940–45] funny money
funny money1. Counterfeit money. He got arrested for trying to use funny money at a department store.2. Money that can only be used in a certain place. You can't use that funny money here—it's only good at the school store.3. Cash in a foreign currency. We need to exchange this funny money before our flight home.See also: funny, moneyfunny money 1. Sl. counterfeit money. The bank teller spotted the funny money in the man's deposit almost immediately. 2. Fig. temporary or substitute money, good only in certain places. What am I going to do with all this funny money when I leave here? It's no good anywhere else. 3. Fig. foreign currency. (Jocular.) We had better buy some gifts and get rid of some of this funny money before our flight.See also: funny, moneyfunny moneyCounterfeit money; also, money from an obscure or questionable source. For example, The police warned storekeepers that some funny money was being passed around town. This expression probably endures because of its rhyme. [1930s] See also: funny, moneyfunny money1. n. counterfeit money. The bank teller spotted the funny money in the man’s deposit almost immediately. 2. n. military script; temporary or substitute money, good only in certain places. What am I going to do with all this funny money when I leave here? It’s no good anywhere else. 3. n. foreign currency. (Jocular.) We had better buy some gifts and get rid of some of this funny money before our flight. See also: funny, moneyfunny moneyPeculiar currency, either because it is counterfeit or because it comes from dubious sources. This expression originated in the United States in the 1930s and became popular after World War II, when American tourists began to use it for any foreign currency as well. It is somewhat derogatory, implying that foreign money is not as “real” or has less worth than domestic currency. See also: funny, moneyfunny money
funny moneyNotional units of computing time and/or storage handed tostudents at the beginning of a computer course; also called"play money" or "purple money" (in implicit opposition to realor "green" money).
In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage "paper money" hasbeen recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym"transfer ruble" commemorates the funny money used for tradebetween COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc stillexisted.
When your funny money ran out, your account froze and youneeded to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, theplunging cost of time-sharing cycles has made this lesscommon. The amounts allocated were almost invariably toosmall, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by withminimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led tosmall-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts. Byextension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind usedas a resource-allocation hack within a system. |