Definitions

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  • noun UK, slang money
  • noun Plural form of acker.

Etymologies

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probably from Egyptian akka, a piastre (unit of currency)

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Examples

  • There was an old round thirties-style Animal C.ackers tin filled with his old marbles, and inside was a yellowed newspaper about Raymond C. Martin winning the county marbles championship.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • I haven't got much in the way of ackers, and I've no change.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

  • To provide this to the public or at least to the security conscious crowd may cause people to think that it is too dangerous for the public, but many of the (cr/h) ackers are already aware of these security holes and know how to exploit them.

    FAQ: Computer Security: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Asked (Version 2.2) 1992

  • Plenty of bush - ackers, but he would walk the surface itself before he would return to the village with only a bushacker or two.

    Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975

  • Plenty of bush - ackers, but he would walk the surface itself before he would return to the village with only a bushacker or two.

    Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975

  • Forty-eight, mind you, in the same stock: not a hell of a lot of ackers.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • Forty-eight, mind you, in the same stock: not a hell of a lot of ackers.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • September 6, 186 --- brite and fair to-day and cool. it feals like autum. i tell you i dont like to have the summer go. one weak from nex munday school begins. i hait to think of it. we will have to do the old xamples about A. and B. and how many squaire feet there is in 4 ackers 2 roods and

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

  • I wonder how many regular posters here would be prepared to shell out a few ackers to keep this wonderful place going?

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • [B] ackers of subsidy caps to larger farm operations still hope they can harness Obama's popularity and transfer mounting populist anger over corporate bonuses from the boardroom to the feedlot to produce renewed traction for the plan in Congress.

    DownWithTyranny! 2009

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  • Money.

    September 12, 2008