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half-a-dollar

British  

noun

  1. slang another name for a half-crown

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I reckon I'll have half-a-dollar on, any old way.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton

I declare it is too bad, to be paying that poking old thing a half-a-dollar a week for our wash, and only six in the family.

From Friends and Neighbors by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

He was examined about a hundred times, and on four occasions received a prize, once a sum in money equivalent to about seventy-five cents, and three other times a sum equal to about half-a-dollar!

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

"I'll take you for half-a-dollar, as you are, if you'll give me the right to sell enlargements as a prairie study."

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold

This she always does in the best possible country style, at the moderate charge of half-a-dollar per head.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

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