Ackers

Ackers

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Money. The word, which has been in armed-forces and working-class use since the 1920s, was revived, in common with synonyms such as pelf, rhino, etc., for jocular use since the 1980s by middle-class speakers. It comes from the Egyptian word akka, denoting a coin worth one piastre.

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