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Breadwinner

The person in a household who earns the most money and/or has the most stable, reliable income.

Penn and Teller are married and live together in Las Vegas, where they co-own and operate a customer service call center for local brothels. Because Teller is mute, he only earns half of what Penn does, making Penn the breadwinner in the household.

Just a quick note: Penn and Teller are not actually married IRL. So yeah...they're living in sin.

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