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half-a-crown en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of half-crown.
   alt of half-crown
   • 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. 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:
2. twenty-six

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