Meanings
nounhalf-a-crown (plural half-a-crowns)
plural half-a-crowns
- alternativeAlternative form 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 - bingotwenty-six
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