threepence n former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies Usage(s) Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a demand of government charwomen for a pay increase of threepence, three farthings (6. Among the cheery, bleary gatherings, he finds some of the best customers for his parish paper at threepence a throw. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each.