tucker money
noun [mass noun] Australian informal, dated
A very small income or very small sum of money: I just work here for tucker money...
- The old pick-and-shovel, dynamite and dry-blowing methods were no longer yielding more than "tucker money" at the gold-fields.
- We all stay with Mother an' Father, him go work an' perhaps bring back tucker money.
- Some of them are just making tucker money.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from the notion that the sum is enough to buy food only.
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