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four bits † Slang 
fifty cents; a fifty-cent piece.
See also: bit (def. 1 and note)
- 1860 It was mighty hard to charge a poor fellow $1.25 for lodging in the street, without blankets, when he could sleep between sheets at the best hotel in town for only four bits.
- 1897 During the present year the lowest standard of value in actual use there, has been the fifty-cent piece, or, in the parlance of the town, "four bits."
- 1961 "I don't really need a four-bit haircut, Repeat."
- 1860 It was mighty hard to charge a poor fellow $1.25 for lodging in the street, without blankets, when he could sleep between sheets at the best hotel in town for only four bits.