| 单词 | short bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort bit short bit n. U.S. regional a unit of monetary value equal to ten cents (now historical).The precise value of a bit (bit n.2 10a) is one-eighth of a dollar or twelve and a half cents. Because there has never been a U.S. coin worth exactly this amount, in transactions involving a sum of one bit it was customary to accept amounts of slightly greater or smaller value than this. Compare long bit n. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a. ΚΠ 1854 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 18 Oct. I'm a little short to-day; can't you let us have three drinks on a short bit? 1881 Lippincott’s Monthly Mag. Apr. 407/2 If you fill your purse with short bits and never give the seller the advantage of the off two and a half cents, you will be frowned upon. 2008 R. Horsman Feast or Famine xii. 294 If you put down a quarter and got a dime in change you had paid a ‘long bit’, but if you could put down a dime, you paid a ‘short bit’, and had saved five cents. < as lemmas |
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