Idioms

four-bits

four bits

Fifty cents. (One "bit" equals 12.5 cents.) Geez, when I was in school, a soft pretzel only cost four bits! No, you're not wasting four bits on an undecipherable plastic toy from that gumball machine. Ugh, another four-bits, and I could get a candy bar from the vending machine.
See also: bit, four
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four-bits

n. fifty cents. (A bit is equal to twelve and one-half cents.) Here’s four-bits. Keep the change.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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