WAMPUM

• (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

  synonyms : peag , wampumpeag

• (noun) informal terms for money

  synonyms : boodle , bread , cabbage , clams , dinero , dough , gelt , kale , lettuce , lolly , loot , lucre , moolah , pelf , scratch , shekels , simoleons , sugar

  foreign coins are not acceptable lucre in most vending machines in this country -added by nithi

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