half-inch
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English
Verb
half-inch (third-person singular simple present half-inches, present participle half-inching, simple past and past participle half-inched)
- (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) To pinch, to steal.
- 1942 December 9, “Rope”, in Punch, page 501:
- No cox'n will ever be hanged; he will always have "half-inched" the rope from the hangman first.
Noun
half-inch (plural half-inches)
- Alternative form of half inch
References
- “half-inch v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “half-inch, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
