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Half ouncer is London Cockney rhyming slang for a doorman (bouncer).
Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half. Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for laugh.
Half ounce is London Cockney rhyming slang for slang for a beating (bounce). Half ounce is London Cockney rhyming slang for cheat (bounce).
the handle of an axe, half
Half a gross is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (dose).
Half a dollar is London Cockney rhyming slang for a collar.
Half (a pint). I could use a cow and calf. He reports that there's a pub in Grenoside (near Sheffield) called the Cow and Calf
Half stamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a tramp.
Half a surprise is British slang for a black eye.
Centre half is British slang for a five playing card. Centre half is London Cockney rhyming slang for scarf.
Half iron is British slang for a bisexual man.
Half a nicker is London Cockney rhyming slang for vicar.
half, half a bar/half a sheet/half a nicker
ten shillings (10/-), from the 1900s, and to a lesser degree after decimalisation, fifty pence (50p), based on the earlier meanings of bar and sheet for a pound. Half is also used as a logical prefix for many slang words which mean a pound, to form a slang expresion for ten shillings and more recently fifty pence (50p), for example and most popularly, 'half a nicker', 'half a quid', etc. The use of the word 'half' alone to mean 50p seemingly never gaught on, unless anyone can confirm otherwise.
Half Track is slang for phencyclidine.
Cow's calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half, especially pence or a six−month prison sentence.
Half is British slang for half of a pound sterling, ten shillings, fifty pence.
Half pint is slang for a child or short adult.
Half a crown was London Cockney rhyming slang for the colour brown.
A house brick, or a half housebrick (half-charlie) Generally used when brick was used as a weapon e.g. "He threw a half-charlie at me!".
Half a stretch is criminal slang for six months imprisonment.
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Half-demented; half-witted.
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To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
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Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
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The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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Half-bred; imperfect.
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Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-filled.
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One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
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Half-blooded.
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Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
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Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
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In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.
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Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
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Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.
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Half-blooded.
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Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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See Half deck, under Deck.
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