Definition of "gelt" [gelt]

• Slang Money. (noun)
• A past tense and a past participle of geld1. (verb)

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• "Students of another local Jewish institution, Chabad Hebrew School in Blue Ash, will be building their menorah out of chocolate coins, known as gelt, on Sunday morning."
• "April 10th, 2009 12: 37pm stanley Jerusalem only the gelt is the problem to getting there - the funt does not buy much these days, so I will have to suffer the jibes of the punctuaters as I drown in the lonly sea of common sense alone - well more or less:)"
• "It’s called gelt because the lesson learned is worthwhile, as precious as money, and more important than whatever was lost or spilled or forgotten."