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Fifty-cent piece   /fˈɪfti-sɛnt pis/   Listen
Fifty-cent piece

noun
1.
A United States coin worth half of a dollar.  Synonym: half dollar.






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"Fifty-cent piece" Quotes from Famous Books



... ragtime drowned out the man's words. Jimmie Dale placed a fifty-cent piece and a tip beside it on his dinner check, pushed back his chair, and rose from the table. There was a half-tolerantly satirical, half-angry glint in his dark, steady eyes. It was not only the police who yelped at his heels, but every man, woman, and child in the ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... who won the fifty-cent piece by finishing his biscuit first simply put into his mouth a certain quantity of the crushed biscuit, and with little or no mastication pushed the whole mass down his throat by ...
— Tales of the Malayan Coast - From Penang to the Philippines • Rounsevelle Wildman

... hundred dollars, he would have put it away gladly; and with such a nest-egg in the start, he might have sought to add to the store. But he could see no hope in a dollar bill, and much less could he discover the nucleus of a grand saving in a fifty-cent piece. ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous

... say you had," muttered the one mentioned, who was now rubbing his arm where Bandy-legs had pinched it, "and if you left a piece of skin as big as a fifty-cent piece below my elbow, I'll be glad, believe me. Bet you I'll be black and blue for a week of Sundays. You sure did give me the worst scare I ever had, with that whoop right in my ear, and then grabbin' ...
— The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island • Lawrence J. Leslie

... sometimes with leaves lying flat on the surface, the dandelion sends up a hollow, leafless stem crowned with a bright-yellow, many-petalled flower about the size of a silver fifty-cent piece. The seed head is a round ball of white down. The leaves are deeply notched, much like thistle leaves, but ...
— On the Trail - An Outdoor Book for Girls • Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard



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