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queen’s shilling Word Origin noun
Origin of queen’s shilling First recorded in 1875–80 British Dictionary definitions for queen’s shilling queen’s shilling when the sovereign was male king’s shilling noun
- (until 1879) a shilling paid to new recruits to the British army
- take the queen’s shilling British archaic to enlist in the army