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!
See also: bit, four
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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
See also:
  • four bits
  • 4-banger
  • four-banger
  • four wheels
  • four-topper
  • topper
  • four
  • on all fours
  • crumb-crusher
  • four-leaf clover
References in periodicals archive
The four-bits good (example: AB) and the six-bits good chips (example: ABC) are used with a specially designed DIMM PCB.
Innovative testing rescues fallout DRAMs. (Memory Test)
She let him see she didn't want his old gold four-bits too.
Ah hauled off and knocked 'im down and took his old four-bits way from 'im.
He trusted village eyes at a distance not to recognize his stick-pin as a gilded quarter, and his watch charm as a four-bit piece.
The Gilded Six-Bits