case quarter


a 25-cent piece. not a combination of coins equaling 25 cents.
an in-law family member asked if anyone had any ‘case quarters,’ as he wanted to go to a do-it yourself car wash where the machine would accept only 25-cent pieces. that family has been in the alexandria, virginia area since 1763.
a black american dialectal term for a twenty-five cent piece. still in current use in isolated areas: attested often in middle georgia.
“yo gotta case quarter i can borraw?”
in the old days people used dollar coins. some times they would cut them into 4 parts. (2 bits 4 bits). if someone wanted a dollar coin that was not in pieces, they would say “case dollar”.this got refreshed several years ago. when some one walks up to you and they say, “yo, you gots a case quarter?” most of the time they will have 2 dimes and 1 nickle.
a kid walks up to the person working in an arcade and ask “yo, you gots a case quarter?” they need a quarter to put into a token machine so they can play a game.
a single american coin made of silver amounting to 25 cents or a quarter of a dollar.

a quarter is often incorrectly used to describe 25 cents whether it is 5 nickles, two dimes and a nickel or twenty five pennies.

a case quarter designates 25 cents as that which is manufactured as a single coin or a case.
yo shorty…..somebody jus’ hit me on my pager!…..you got a case – quarter for two dimes and a nick?

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