Did you mean half dollar?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A U.S. silver coin worth 50 cents.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of 50 cents.
Wiktionary
- n. A coin worth one half of a dollar.
Examples
“Second graders are forced to solve worksheet problems concerning half-dollar coins even if you can't remember the last time you saw one in circulation and the chincy manipulative kit does not include them.”
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“Matt Roush: Leigh, that was more like a shiny half-dollar.”
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“He looks in good form, has a half-dollar size mark on his cheek with staples and stitches -- all covered with some kind of silver ointment.”
“At 100 yards, it opened up to the size of an Eisenhower half-dollar and 3 to the right.”
“Today, many of the items he removed from people's insides are filed away in a metal cabinet at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia: safety pins, needles, nails, a crucifix with several rosary beads still attached, chicken bones, a half-dollar dated 1892, a bullet and a pin that ironically reads "B-A-2-Way Looker Says Care Fu Lee.”
“Proudly displayed between them was a mint Kennedy half-dollar in a presentation case.”
“And each, as she laid her half-dollar down, was distinctly aware of how many pieces of fancy starch were represented by the coin.”
“By 1866, it found its way on to US nickel, quarter, half-dollar, dollar and on the five -, ten - and twenty - dollar coins.”
“Its nose was spread to the size of a half-dollar, its butt-end, steel-jacketed, was undamaged.”
“But not like my first trip 5 years ealier, when you could sell your Levi's for $50, and get a couple bucks for a JFK half-dollar.”
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