Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Threp
or thrip, thrups, subs. (old).—Three-pence (B. E. and GROSE).
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1888. J. C. HARRIS, Ananias [Harper’s Magazine, lxxvi. April, 703]. He was not above any transaction, however small, that promised to bring him a dime where he had invested a THRIP.
