Penny

Noun

 * 1)  In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation.  Abbreviation: d.
 * 2) In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling.
 * 3)  In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro.  Abbreviation: p.
 * 4) In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar.  Abbreviation: ¢.
 * 5) In various countries, a small denomination copper or brass coin.
 * 6) A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny.  Abbreviation: d.

Synonyms

 * (1/240 of a pound sterling): old penny
 * (1/100 of a pound sterling): new penny (old-fashioned)
 * (one-cent coin): cent

Verb

 * 1)  To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
 * Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
 * 1)  To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.

Thesaurus
C, C-note, G, G-note, bawbee, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, copper, crown, dime, dollar, dollar bill, farthing, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, florin, four bits, fourpence, fourpenny, frogskin, grand, groat, guinea, half G, half a C, half crown, half dollar, half grand, halfpenny, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mag, meg, mill, mite, monkey, new pence, nickel, np, p, pence, pony, pound, quarter, quid, red cent, sawbuck, shilling, silver dollar, sixpence, skin, smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tuppence, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, twopence, yard