| 1. | a cupronickel coin and former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the 20th part of a pound, equal to 12 pence: retained in circulation equal to 5 new pence after decimalization in 1971. Abbreviation: s. |
| 2. | a former monetary unit of various other nations, as Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Nigeria, equal to one twentieth of a pound or 12 pence. |
| 3. | the monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda, equal to 100 cents. |
| 4. | any of various coins and moneys of account used in various parts of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
| 5. | shilling mark. |

Slang.| 1. | a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc. |
| 2. | a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty. |
| 3. | to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino. |
| 4. | to advertise or promote (a product) as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle: He was hired to shill a new TV show. |

| a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence: One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.” |
shil·ling (shĭl'ĭng) n.
[Middle English, from Old English scilling.] |
shill
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shilling
former English and British coin, nominally valued at one-twentieth of a pound sterling, or 12 pence. The shilling was also formerly the monetary unit of Australia, Austria, New Zealand, and Ireland. Today it is the basic monetary unit in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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