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gelt (gelt)

transitive verb

geld
gelt2 definition

gelt (gelt)

noun

Slang money

Etymology: Yiddish geld < MHG (a late-19th-c. borrowing): orig. (16th c.) < Ger or Du geld, but fell out of use except dialectally: cf. geld

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