Definitions for shilling

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shilling shil·ling

Spelling: [shil-ing]

IPA: /ˈʃɪl ɪŋ/

Shilling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in shilling (ghiillns).

Definitions for shilling

noun

1. a cupronickel coin and former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the 20th part of a pound, equal to 12 pence: retained in circulation equal to 5 new pence after decimalization in 1971. Abbreviation: s.
2. a former monetary unit of various other nations, as Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Nigeria, equal to one twentieth of a pound or 12 pence.
3. the monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda, equal to 100 cents.
4. any of various coins and moneys of account used in various parts of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.
5. shilling mark.
6. a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
7. a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.

verb (used with object)

1. to advertise or promote (a product) as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle:

verb (used without object)

1. to work as a shill:

Origin of shilling

before 900; Middle English; Old English scilling; cognate with Dutch schelling, German Schilling, Old Norse skillingr, Gothic skillings

Examples for shilling

Kate Moss's Self Tanner: Kate Moss is now shilling self-tanner.

A shilling of it is in case of accidents—the mare casting a shoe, or the like of that.

The price of a mass varies from a shilling to one pound sterling.

Before the body was sent to the crematorium, shilling and Crump filled the casket with animal bones, meat, and a mannequin.

I threw them a shilling: the hay-rope was withdrawn, and at last we went on.

Ay, that is a thirteen, plase your honour; all as one as an English shilling.

Kirkwood slapped a shilling down on the ticket-window ledge.

shilling, a native of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to a pair of wire-fraud counts last July.

The hootenanny on political websites about the contest being up for grabs is shilling for advertising dollars.

Many admirers of the once “radical” Mansfield, assumed this must have been a result of having taken the Fayed shilling.