<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a cupronickel coin and former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the 20th part of a pound, equal to 12 pence; retained in circulation equal to 5 new pence after decimalization in 1971</li><li>a former monetary unit of various other nations, as Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Nigeria, equal to one twentieth of a pound or 12 pence</li><li>the monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda, equal to 100 cents</li><li>any of various coins and moneys of account used in various parts of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries</li></ul><p><strong>adjective</strong></p><ul><li>also bobtailed: having a bobtail; cut short; docked; cropped</li><li>shorter or briefer than usual; abbreviated</li></ul><p><strong>verb</strong></p><ul><li>to cut short the tails of; dock, often by cutting a muscle in a horse's tail to make it stand erect</li></ul>