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half a dollar noun- a prison sentence of 50 years US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 205, 1990
- a half-crown coin; two shillings and sixpence UK, 1916
Pre-decimalisation, that is pre-1971, a half-crown coin was valued at two shillings and sixpence (equivalent to 12½ p), and, presumably, at the point of coinage, a pound was worth approximately four US dollars.
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