play money
Americannoun
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paper that is cut and printed to resemble paper money, often used in playing board games.
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Informal. worthless or counterfeit currency.
The bankrupt government was putting play money in circulation.
Example Sentences
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Willy is the cook at Granger’s Bar and Grill, where he shovels out hamburgers and hot dogs and shepherd’s pie for a bunch of millworkers who also drink up their payday money.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
They played baseball and basketball, swam in the rivers, flocked at night to movies, risked their payday money in poker and crap games.
From Time Magazine Archive
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