DCHP-3

two bits†

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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twenty-five cents.

See: bit(def. 1 and note)

Quotations

1860
Two bits to the pan is an excellent prospect.
1912
The first thing that struck us as out of the common was the sight of several inanimate bodies sprawled in the mud of the trail . . . The instrument of havoc was "squirrel whiskey" at two bits a drink.
1964
. . . they would cross the Fraser to Hope in a gasboat (fare, two bits). . . .