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slat
noun- used to denote five shillings, or the post-decimalisation equivalent of 25p UK
Originally (1788) “a half-crown coin”; subsequently, perhaps as a result of inflation, used of a crown (a five-shilling coin) and its value. Thus, pre-1971, “half-a-slat” was “a half-crown coin; half-a-crown in value”, and so it remained, despite metrication, to represent equivalent values. - — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- a dollar US
- You want the blue too? The bite [cost] is two for fifty slats. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 92, 1969
- a jail or prison sentence US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 56, 1973
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