Quid meaning

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Quid is defined as one British pound (a pound sterling), or to a lump of tobacco for chewing.

A British pound sterling that you can use to buy an item that costs one pound is an example of a quid.

A lump of Skoal or Red Man chewing tobacco is an example of quid.

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A cut, as of chewing tobacco.
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A pound sterling.
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A piece, as of tobacco, to be chewed.
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A sovereign, or one pound sterling.
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A British term that is used as a nickname to its primary currency unit, the pound. It is the equivalent of the dollar and is used in the same way that “buck” is used to refer to the U.S. dollar.
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The inherent nature of something.
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(US, historical) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
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(historical) A sovereign or guinea.
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(UK, colloquial) Pound sterling.

Five quid for a sandwich? You're having a laugh!

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(Australia, colloquial) Pound (before the 1966 currency change)
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(Ireland, colloquial) Pound, punt.
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(Ireland, colloquial) Euro.
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A piece of chewing tobacco.
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(US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
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(of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.
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Origin of quid

From Latin quid (“what, something"), neuter singular of quis (“who").

Sentence Examples

  • Only quid quo pro.

  • The king having asked, "Quid distat inter sottum et Scottum ?"

  • It was simply a case of differing definitions of quid pro quo.

  • His first mention of the subject occurs in a letter to Schikhart dated the i ith of March 1618, in which he writes - " Extitit Scotus Baro, cujus nomen mihi excidit, qui praeclari quid praestitit, necessitate omni multiplicationum et divisionum in meras additiones et subtractiones commutata, nec sinibus utitur: at tamen opus est ipsi tangentium canone: et varietas, crebritas, difficultasque additionum subtractionumque alicubi laborem multiplicandi et dividendi superat."

  • This same purpose, namely, to hold fast to the historic Jesus, triumphed in the doctrine of the Trinity; Jesus was not to be resolved into an aeon or into some mysterious tertium quid, neither God nor man, but to be recognized as very God who redeemed the soul.

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