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cent
noun
a dollar US- “Four cents for the plunge, and it’s lemonade.” — Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, p. 55, 1957
- One cent is a dollar. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 148, 1958
- “I’ll be givin you three cents extra–what’s wrong with that?” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 43, 1960
- Red came toward Bernie, menacing. “You don’t understand, I gotta have twenty cent, like I tell you.” Twenty cent meant twenty dollars; Red always spoke of dollars in amounts under one hundred as cents; perhaps it expressed his contempt for money. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 157, 1961
- Man, like how many times some cat’s come up to me with his old man’s watch or sister’s coat and swap for a three-cent bag. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 206, 1967
▶ like a cent worth of shaved ice
humiliated, belittled TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1987- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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