Definition of "ecu" [ecu]

• The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro. (noun)

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• "Each currency was pegged to an artificial currency unit known as the ecu, the predecessor of the euro."
• "I let my buddy drive my 96 LSC to get lunch for himself, his car is in the shop getting some kind of ecu work done (2006 sti)."
• "On air, Colbert has chided the pope as an "ecu-menace" for his outreach to other faiths, referred to non-Catholics as "heathens and the excommunicated" and calls those who believe in evolution "monkey men.""