gelt

Plural: gelts

Noun

• Money, especially currency.
• informal terms for money
• A lunatic.
• Gilding; gilt.
• A gelding.
• Money.
• Tribute; tax.
• Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
• Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.

Verb

• cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
• simple past and past participle of geld

Examples

• I put down GELT on the double-word, earning a valuable sum of points.

Synonyms

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, cut, dinero, dough, geld, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum