caroon
Noun
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Noun
caroon (plural caroons)
- (UK, obsolete slang) A crown (coin); its value, 5 shillings.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- Half-a-crown is known as an smallcaps alderman, smallcaps half a bull, smallcaps half a tusheroon, and a smallcaps madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a smallcaps bull, or a smallcaps caroon, or a smallcaps cartwheel, or a smallcaps coachwheel, or a smallcaps thick-un, or a smallcaps tusheroon.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
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