two bits

twenty-five cents.

Origin of two bits

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

Blessed old "two-bits" and a "dollar six-bits" are the only woolly things left over from the old wild West.

Vignettes Of San Francisco |Almira Bailey
She will tell you much for a silver shilling; but she will tell you more for two-bits.

The Corner House Girls Under Canvas |Grace Brooks Hill
Ten cents a dozen; two-bits for fifty; half a dollar a hundred.

The Corner House Girls Under Canvas |Grace Brooks Hill
Swell car—poor man with no eats, not even a two-bits flop for tonight.

Free Air |Sinclair Lewis

At the time dues to the Society were two-bits a year—not enough to allow a very extensive publication.

Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro |Will H. Thomas

two bits

see under for two cents.