Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A theater of a very low class, where the price of admission is a penny or two.
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Examples
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The respectable and greatly - trusted Sam was letting off a series of wild howls which would have done credit to a penny-gaff Zulu, and was evidently very much out of temper about something.
Many Cargoes 1903
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"penny-gaffs" and the like, the "penny-gaff" being the equivalent of our dime museum.
Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878
hernesheir commented on the word penny-gaff
Now that was cheap theater.
December 5, 2010