A kind of thing or person that's cheap, or which you can find easily and in large groups.
Don't worry about that band, pop and emo scumbags are ten-a-penny now a days
archaic an item of little value, relating back to 'pennies' having a value equal to of 1/5,000th of an ounce of gold in English and American coinage of the 19th Century. Approximately $3 USD in 2018.
Here’s the thing… I don’t give a ten-penny fuck about your moral conundrum, you meat-headed shit-sack… That’s more or less the thing.
- Bill the Butcher, Gangs of New York
When a girl is lay'd on a table and 10 guys 5 on each side of the table. They then cum on her from the bottom to the top. Hens the term Ten Penny Tower.
Man we should totally Ten penny tower that chick!
The act of spreading false information, gossip, rumors, and bullshit to defame a person’s character.
Aunt Shirley is going around dropping ten pennies on her nephew to try to smear his good name.