Meaning of pancrack | Babel Free

Definitions

Social security, especially as paid to the unemployed; the dole.

UK, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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 . . . .”

“She had saved it out of her social security money: the "pancrack" as she contemptuously called it.”

“"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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