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Half Track is slang for phencyclidine.
Half iron is British slang for a bisexual man.
Half stamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a tramp.
Half pint is slang for a child or short adult.
Half a stretch is criminal slang for six months imprisonment.
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.
Half a surprise is British slang for a black eye.
Half a gross is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (dose).
Centre half is British slang for a five playing card. Centre half is London Cockney rhyming slang for scarf.
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 a crown was London Cockney rhyming slang for the colour brown.
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 is British slang for half of a pound sterling, ten shillings, fifty pence.
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.
Spotty dog is London Cockney rhyming slang for a foreigner (wog).
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!".
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 a nicker is London Cockney rhyming slang for vicar.
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Half-bred; imperfect.
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A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.
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A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
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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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Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
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Half-filled.
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Having a face resembling that of a dog.
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The dog-rose.
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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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Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
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A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
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Half-demented; half-witted.
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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 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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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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Half-blooded.
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Half-blooded.
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Having a head shaped like that of a dog; -- said of certain baboons.
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