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Definition of Shinplaster
1. Noun. Paper money of little value issued on insufficient security.
Definition of Shinplaster
1. n. Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
Definition of Shinplaster
1. Noun. (context: historical US Australia and New Zealand informal) An essentially worthless note of paper money. ¹
2. Noun. (context: historical Canada informal) A 25¢ banknote. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shinplaster
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinplaster
Literary usage of Shinplaster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Now, this means a plaster, and the word plaster or shinplaster is a well-known
slang term for a paper dollar, used especially during the Revolutionary and ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"The people may whistle for protection, and put up with what shinplaster rags they
can get. — NY Tribune, Dec. 3, 1S45. What 's become of all the specie ..."
3. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"35 " shinplaster " Caricature of Benton, Jackson, and Van Buren . ... 127 Jackson
bearing Van Buren to the Presidency "shinplaster" Caricature of Van Buren, ..."
4. Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of by Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, John Agg (1838)
"T hold in my hand, sir, a treasury shinplaster, issued by the government of the
United States, which promises to pay the bearer fifty dollars, •with two per ..."
5. Five Months in Rebeldom, Or, Notes from the Diary of a Bull Run Prisoner, at by William Howard Merrell (1862)
"The Confederate shinplaster Currency had. its origin in the necessity to which
... The rebel Congress was thus constrained to offer a shinplaster system, ..."
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