Definition of Green goods

1. Noun. Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market.

Exact synonyms: Garden Truck, Green Groceries, Produce
Generic synonyms: Food, Solid Food
Specialized synonyms: Edible Fruit, Veg, Vegetable, Veggie, Eater
Derivative terms: Produce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Goods

green energies
green energy
green fallow
green fingers
green flash
green flashes
green fluorescent protein
green fluorescent proteins
green foxtail
green fringed orchis
green frog
green gentian
green gland
green goddess
green gold
green goods (current term)
green gram
green groceries
green haemoglobin
green hairstreak
green hairstreaks
green hellebore
green hellebores
green in the gills
green jersey
green labelling
green lacewing
green lane
green lead ore
green leek

Literary usage of Green goods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its Phases by Marshall Henry Cushing (1892)
"I found that the stationer whose parlor was occupied by the green goods ... The green goods man was very smart and kept dodging from one place to another. ..."

2. The Sunny Side of the Street by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1905)
"A Great Publisher "Approached " by green goods Men.—Henry Watterson.— Opie Eeid.—Quimby of the Free Press.—Laurence Hut- ton, Edwin Booth and I in Danger ..."

3. The New Standard American Business Guide: A Complete Compendium of how to Do by E. T. Roe (1911)
"THE "green goods" SWINDLE This is a scheme in which the swindlers act upon ... The- "green goods" are referred to in such a manner as to make certain that ..."

4. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"4, in which green goods are stacked, are partly opened, the damper M' in main ... 4, thence through and amongst the green goods, and finally escapes by the ..."

5. Gallegher: And Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis (1891)
"green goods is the technical name for counterfeit bills, and the green-goods men send out circulars to countrymen all over the United States, ..."

6. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1800)
"vats tliat contain tiie green goods f for as fet of leaks, and that the vats in which are tlie liquor in the confié oí' being worked the forward goods may ..."

7. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
""What's in the green bag?" 1.e., what is the charge to be preferred against me ? green goods operators (American), the counterfeiters of greenbacks. ..."

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