1) Thripid 2) Thrips 3) Thysanopter 4) Thysanopteron 5) Thysanopterous insect 1) Thripid 2) Thrips 
The thrip is an American three-cent piece, employed as early as the late 1800s. The term was possibly first used to describe the silver three-cent pieces, for when the nickel three-cent pieces arrived in 1865, these latter were called nickels.Thrip was old slang for a threepenny piece.