Usually means: Money gained in dishonest ways.
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  1. pelf: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pelf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pelf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pelf: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. pelf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pelf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pelf: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pelf, pelf: Dictionary.com
  12. pelf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Pelf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pelf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  16. Pelf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pelf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Pelf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. pelf: Free Dictionary
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  23. Pelf: World Wide Words

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pelf: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. pelf: Medical dictionary

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  2. pelf: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelf: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pelf: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pelf)

▸ noun:  (uncountable, chiefly derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (British, dialectal) refuse from plants.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, Southwest England) Dust; fluff.
▸ noun:  (countable, Yorkshire, derogatory) A contemptible or useless person.

Similar:
lucre, loot, gelt, moolah, dough, bread, cabbage, kale, dinero, shekels, more...

Types:
money, cash, currency, loot, booty, swag, riches, wealth, more...

Adjectives:
worldly, little, sordid, meaner, gotten, paltry, dirty, mere, more, earthly, filthy
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Similar:
lucre, loot, gelt, moolah, dough, bread, cabbage, kale, dinero, shekels, more...

Types:
money, cash, currency, loot, booty, swag, riches, wealth, more...

Adjectives:
worldly, little, sordid, meaner, gotten, paltry, dirty, mere, more, earthly, filthy



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