four bits

noun Slang.

50 cents.

Origin of four bits

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

OTHER WORDS FROM four bits

four-bit, adjective

Words nearby four bits

fountains abbey, fouquet, fouquier-tinville, fouqué, four, four bits, four corners, four corners of the earth, the, four flush, four freedoms, four horsemen

Example sentences from the Web for four bits

  • Ten dollars apiece was the price of a chance, and it was freeze-out at four-bits a chip.

    Bat Wing Bowles |Dane Coolidge

  • It cost "four-bits" and drinks to dance, and the dances lasted only a few minutes.

    Arizona's Yesterday |John H. Cady

  • Well, you can't blame her, in a way; when Bill lit out, he done her out of four-bits!

    Free Air |Sinclair Lewis

  • Didn't I see the man who had been there and paid his four-bits to cross?

    Vignettes Of San Francisco |Almira Bailey