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pancrack en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang, uncountable) Social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.
    • "I'll go on the pancrack," I told the foreman, but when I got to the dole office they told me I wouldn't need to sign on. 2012, Roy Chubby Brown, chapter 6, in Common As Muck, →ISBN:
    • She had saved it out of her social security money: the "pancrack" as she contemptuously called it. 1982, Pat Barker, Union Street, →ISBN:
    • It is Pancrack day or so they call it. Dole money or social security which is often more for those who have done no work at all . . . . 1971, Delta: A Literary Review from Cambridge, Issues 49-54, p. 38 (Google snippet view)

Synonyms

dole · pogey