| 单词 | long bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong bit long bit n. U.S. regional (chiefly western) a unit of monetary value equal to fifteen 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 short bit n. at short adj., n., and adv. Additions. ΚΠ 1852 Yankee Notions Oct. 295/2 ‘How many liquors can I get for two long bits?’ ‘Five.’ 1873 J. E. Lester Atlantic to Pacific 86 If you buy anything for a ‘bit’, and hand a quarter of a dollar in payment, they return you ten cents in change, which would be, as they say, ‘taking the long-bit’; the ‘short bit’ being a dime. 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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