halvers

[ hav-erz, hah-verz ]

plural noun

, Midland and Southern U.S.

1. halves:

   Let's go halvers on anything we find.

Word History and Origins

Origin of halvers¹

1500–10; half + -er ¹ + -s ³, with voicing of f by analogy with plural halves

Example Sentences

Did you ever see a big boss that would go halvers with his men in flush times, and of his own notion pay 'em extry?

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He was a cheerful, stirin' cretur, always doin' somethin', and no man can say he ever see him do anything by halvers.

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The man who owned the land, I worked on halvers, sold it on the Liverpool market.

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