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Centre half is British slang for a five playing card. Centre half is London Cockney rhyming slang for scarf.
Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half. Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for laugh.
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."
Half is British slang for half of a pound sterling, ten shillings, fifty pence.
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, 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 a surprise is British slang for a black eye.
Half iron is British slang for a bisexual man.
Half a stretch is criminal slang for six months imprisonment.
Half a crown was London Cockney rhyming slang for the colour brown.
Half a nicker is London Cockney rhyming slang for vicar.
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
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 Track is slang for phencyclidine.
Spotty dog is London Cockney rhyming slang for a foreigner (wog).
Cow's calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half, especially pence or a six−month prison sentence.
Half a dollar is London Cockney rhyming slang for a collar.
Half a gross is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (dose).
Half pint is slang for a child or short adult.
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Half-demented; half-witted.
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Half-blooded.
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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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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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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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Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
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Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
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Half-filled.
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A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
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Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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The dog-rose.
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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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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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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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A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
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Half-bred; imperfect.
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Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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