wampum
1. informal terms for money • Syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar • Derivationally related forms: cabbage (for: cabbage) • Hypernyms: money 2. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency • Syn: peag, wampumpeag • Hypernyms: beads, string of beads
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