How to Use funny money in a Sentence

funny money

noun

• There were no guns, no drugs, no funny money, no girls, no boys, no nothing.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
• Fletcher won his largest bet of the night and the dealer tried to pay him in funny money.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2021
• But the Sharks weren’t just tossing out funny money.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• As a courtesy, the casino traded all his funny money for real chips.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2021
• However, it was soon discovered that there was plenty of funny money in that deal.
  — Steven Ruiz, For The Win, 10 May 2018
• This is what happens when the funny money flies as the NFL’s free agent market opens.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2018
• Not surprisingly, that’s sparking lawsuits from others who want some of the funny money.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2018
• Nevada's lack of a state income tax would also give Brady a little extra funny money for the tables.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
• His regime has kept grabbing dollars from people’s bank accounts and replacing them with electronic funny money, which has now lost most of its value.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• In June, without enough hard cash to pay the soldiers who defend it, the government decreed that shops must accept only funny money.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Betsy DeVos surveys her domain from atop a mountain of Amway funny money.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
• The possibility of $2 billion in funny money floating around is alarming enough.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2018
• As long as there is an exchange of funny money for real money, the owner of the funny money should rationally get into contracts to lock in the exchange for as long as possible.
  — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• That’s a reaction to the funny money tossed around when the salary cap spiked in 2016 in historic fashion, thanks to an influx of money from a new TV deal.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018
• Perhaps no asset represents this strange new era of funny money—totally detached from the material concerns afflicting much of the country—more than non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• FinCEN’s real estate regulation will likely draw fire from real estate developers because the current boom in urban luxury real estate depends heavily on funny money, and a lot of those units aren’t even occupied.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021