half-dollar
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English
Etymology
Noun
half-dollar (plural half-dollars)
- A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents.
- 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 55:
- The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it. [This may be inspired by the number 42626 where 26 occurs twice; the half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence - 2s 6d or 2/6.]