quarter
230
1.0
- noun
- /ˈkwɔːrtər/
- US
:
veinticinco centavos
- Nick turns back to the machine and pops the quarter into the coin slot.
- U.S. quarter
- dollar and a quarter
But are is that handful of quarters on this whole football field?
- But are is that handful of quarters on this whole football field?
- I want one where you have to put quarters in and it gently rocks me.
- I had this huge bag of Dimes, quarters and half dollars.
- And I go to my bank and I would buy silver Dimes and quarters, not nickels.
- And then in between them there was washing machines with quarter slots.
- you know, my upbringing. I said no thank you and he looks very shocked, Said OK, close the door and I put in my two quarters and got my paper
- Now this is now this is the crazy I'm grabbing from the bottom, getting the quarter.
Examples
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I just happen to have three little quarters in my bag.
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Come on, just give me a quarter.
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Give me a quarter and a dime.
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I showed him a book, a ball, tennis shoes, a quarter, and pictures.
Fiction book (1993) -
Uh, do you have a roll of quarters in your pocket?
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Two for a quarter.
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Here's a quarter.
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Har picked up the phone, deposited a quarter, dialed, and handed the phone to Luis.
Fiction book (1992) -
I found a quarter on the sidewalk while walking to the store.
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Could you please give me a quarter for the parking meter?
Synonyms
A coin worth twenty-five cents in the United States and Canada
Idioms
- Offensive
4
9.9
To kill someone by tying limbs to four horses and pulling them apart, or to punish very harshly
- Offensive
1
9.9
To threaten or kill someone by hanging, cutting their body open and dividing it into four parts
Compounds
- Specialized
20
3.2
The time when the Moon looks half lit about one week after the new moon
- Specialized
4
4.1
Half the Moon is lit when it comes after a full moon and before a new moon
4
3.7
A small, strong American horse bred for short, fast races like quarter-mile sprints
1
7.5
Fighting that happens at very short distance between people, often hand-to-hand
- Specialized
1
9.9
A vertical crack on the inside of a horse's front hoof that can make the horse limp
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Archaic
1
9.9
A local court in England and Wales that met four times a year to try crimes before 1972
- Archaic
A unit of length equal to 10,000 km, one fourth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator
- Specialized
A musical interval half the size of a semitone used in some modern and non-Western music
- US
A woody vine from the southern United States with bright flowers and a cross-shaped stem when cut
- Specialized
A book with its spine and most of the sides covered in a different material like leather
How Valuable
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Archaic
4
9.9
- Archaic
∞
1.0
- US
230
1.0
- US
142
1.0
950
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Quarter comes from Latin quartus 'fourth', so the coin is called a quarter because it is 'one fourth' of a dollar.