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Half pint is slang for a child or short adult.
A short watch period, generally half the usual time (e.g. a two-hour watch rather than a four-hour one. In the RCN they are named the "First Dog" and the "Second Dog" and they run from 1600 to 1800 and 1800 to 2000. Initially named "dodge watch" as it allowed seamen to escape or dodge standing the same watch every day.
Half stamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a tramp.
Half a gross is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (dose).
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 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 is British slang for half of a pound sterling, ten shillings, fifty pence.
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.
A description of a very short span of time. eg. "Could you give me a hand? It won't take more than half a dog watch."
Centre half is British slang for a five playing card. Centre half is London Cockney rhyming slang for scarf.
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 a surprise is British slang for a black eye.
Half a crown was London Cockney rhyming slang for the colour brown.
Half a dollar is London Cockney rhyming slang for a collar.
Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half. Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for laugh.
Spotty dog is London Cockney rhyming slang for a foreigner (wog).
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Half-filled.
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Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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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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Half-blooded.
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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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A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
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Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-blooded.
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A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
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Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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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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Half-bred; imperfect.
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One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
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Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
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A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
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Half-demented; half-witted.
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To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
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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 dog-rose.
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