piggy bank

1. 1.

   a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)

   Synonymspenny bank

   Broadersavings bank

Questions about piggy bank

What does piggy bank mean?

piggy bank means "a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig)".

What is another word for piggy bank?

Close synonyms include penny bank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piggy bank a common word?

piggy bank is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.