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What is a penny-a-liner?

What is a penny-a-liner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (derogatory) One who supplies writing to public journals for a set fee per line of text; a poor writer for hire; a hack.
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The Emperor has thrown him up, and there's no one outside a penny-a-liner cares two pinches for him or what becomes of him.
You don't want me to be a penny-a-liner all my life, sweetheart, do you?
Motherhood to-day is on the lips of every penny-a-liner, every social patchworker and political climber.
The sole exception I can call to mind is PG Wodehouse, who started out as a penny-a-liner on the Globe and seems to have found journalism to be innocent fun.
He is a music master, or a penny-a-liner, or a third-rate artist.
From the penny-a-liner to the artist and thinker, the demand for their labour continually increases.

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