"get-penny" meaning in English

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          "text": "thou and thy acts become the posies for hospitals; when thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds played i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be called their get-penny.",
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          "ref": "1728, Daniel Defoe, Augusta Triumphans:",
          "text": "if a pack of hackney scribblers shall attack me only by way of a get-penny, I shall not be provoked to answer them",
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        "Something that makes money; a financially successful affair."
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        "(colloquial, dated) Something that makes money; a financially successful affair."
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          "word": "money-spinner"
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