▪ I. † caser1 Obs.
| 1585 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) 112, j caser, j chair and a launce, 12d. |
▪ II. caser2 slang.
(ˈkeɪsə(r))
[Yiddish; f. Heb. kesef silver.]
A crown; five shillings; in the U.S., a dollar.
| 1849 ‘A. Harris’ Emigrant Fam. I. ix. 212 A caser (dollar) if you fine him a night of it; and four if he gets what'll make him quiet. 1860 Hotten Slang Dict. 111. Caser is the Hebrew word for a crown. 1879 J. W. Horsley in Macm. Mag. Oct. 501/2 One morning I found I did not have more than a caser (5s.). 1899 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Jan., Caser, a five-shilling piece [cited as N.Z. slang]. 1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails (1945) 145, I borrowed half a caser off a murderer once. 1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing x. 256 Knocker brought some money and examined it... ‘A nicker, half a bar, a caser an' a hole.’ 1967 Sunday Mirror 19 Mar. 24/4, 5s.—Oxford scholar or caser. |