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shinplaster

[shin-plas-ter, -plah-ster]

noun

a plaster for the shin or leg.

Informal. (formerly)

a piece of paper money of a denomination lower than one dollar.

money of little value, as that issued on insufficient security.

Origin:
1815–25, Americanism; shin¹ + plaster

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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shinplaster (ˈʃɪnˌplɑːstə)

—n
	(US), (Canadian), (Austral) a promissory note on brittle paper, issued by an individual

[C19: so called because of its resemblance to a sticking plaster]

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