half-a-crown
English
Noun
half-a-crown (plural half-a-crowns)Category:English lemmas#HALFACROWNCategory:English nouns#HALFACROWNCategory:English countable nouns#HALFACROWNCategory:English multiword terms#HALFACROWNCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HALFACROWNCategory:Pages with entries#HALF-A-CROWNCategory:Pages with 1 entry#HALF-A-CROWN
- Alternative form of half-crown.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.Category:English terms with quotations#HALFACROWN
- (bingoCategory:en:Bingo#HALFACROWN) twenty-six