Buying prescription drugs without a scrip is a serious legal offense, as Rush Limbaugh could tell you.
Behold me with staff and scrip, footing it merrily in the Land of Pardons.
I pay over the money for your scrip, and you pocket a premium.
Again, you have the word scrip—as a scrip of paper, government scrip.
On my windmill locations I put "scrip" in blocks of forty acres.
He drew from his pocket a roll of scrip, and handed one to Frank.
The cobbler knew nothing of the mine, but he held the scrip.
I also had at my banker's some scrip, and I knew I could raise money on that.
Your scrip, a-swinging by your side, Gapes with a gaunt mouth hungry-wide.
You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
"certificate of a right to receive something" (especially a stock share), 1762, probably shortened from (sub)scrip(tion) receipt. Originally "receipt for a portion of a loan subscribed," meaning "certificate issued as currency" first recorded 1790.
