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Half Track is slang for phencyclidine.
Half a crown was London Cockney rhyming slang for the colour brown.
Half a nicker is London Cockney rhyming slang for vicar.
Half pint is slang for a child or short adult.
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 stretch is criminal slang for six months imprisonment.
Half ouncer is London Cockney rhyming slang for a doorman (bouncer).
Half a gross is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (dose).
Half a dollar is London Cockney rhyming slang for a collar.
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.
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 ounce is London Cockney rhyming slang for slang for a beating (bounce). Half ounce is London Cockney rhyming slang for cheat (bounce).
Half is British slang for half of a pound sterling, ten shillings, fifty pence.
the handle of an axe, half
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 pint). I could use a cow and calf. He reports that there's a pub in Grenoside (near Sheffield) called the Cow and Calf
Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for half. Cow and calf is London Cockney rhyming slang for laugh.
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Half-blooded.
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Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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Half-blooded.
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Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
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Half-bred; imperfect.
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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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To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
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Half-filled.
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The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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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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Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
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Half-demented; half-witted.
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Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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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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See Half deck, under Deck.
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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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One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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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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