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pancrack (uncountable)
- (UK, slang) Social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.
- 1971, Delta: A Literary Review from Cambridge, Issues 49-54, p. 38 (Google snippet view):
- 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 . . . .
1982, Pat Barker, Union Street, →ISBN:She had saved it out of her social security money: the "pancrack" as she contemptuously called it.
2012, Roy Chubby Brown, chapter 6, in Common As Muck, →ISBN:"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.
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