How to Use funny money in a Sentence
funny money
noun
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Fletcher won his largest bet of the night and the dealer tried to pay him in funny money.
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Wally Hall,
Arkansas Online,
8 June 2021
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This is what happens when the funny money flies as the NFL’s free agent market opens.
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Jarrett Bell,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2018
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There were no guns, no drugs, no funny money, no girls, no boys, no nothing.
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Neal B. Freeman,
National Review,
5 Oct. 2020
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That’s a reaction to the funny money tossed around when the salary cap spiked in 2016 in historic fashion, thanks to an influx of money from a new TV deal.
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K.c. Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
30 June 2018
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As a courtesy, the casino traded all his funny money for real chips.
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Wally Hall,
Arkansas Online,
8 June 2021
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For you, the funny money was worthless — and you’re right, American Airlines could do better.
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Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate,
The Mercury News,
30 June 2019
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However, it was soon discovered that there was plenty of funny money in that deal.
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Steven Ruiz,
For The Win,
10 May 2018
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In June, without enough hard cash to pay the soldiers who defend it, the government decreed that shops must accept only funny money.
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The Economist,
15 Aug. 2019
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Not surprisingly, that’s sparking lawsuits from others who want some of the funny money.
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Alan Murray,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2018
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His regime has kept grabbing dollars from people’s bank accounts and replacing them with electronic funny money, which has now lost most of its value.
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The Economist,
15 Aug. 2019
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The possibility of $2 billion in funny money floating around is alarming enough.
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Timothy B. Lee,
Ars Technica,
5 Feb. 2018
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Moscow’s funny money spanned continents, according to Circa.com’s Sara Carter.
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Deroy Murdock,
National Review,
20 Oct. 2017
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Perhaps no asset represents this strange new era of funny money—totally detached from the material concerns afflicting much of the country—more than non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.
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Jacob Silverman,
The New Republic,
10 Mar. 2021
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FinCEN’s real estate regulation will likely draw fire from real estate developers because the current boom in urban luxury real estate depends heavily on funny money, and a lot of those units aren’t even occupied.
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Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
14 Dec. 2021
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