Meanings
adjectivehalf baked (comparative more half baked, superlative most half baked)
comparative more half baked · superlative most half baked
- alternativeAlternative form of half-baked.
If we would have hired a good mechanic instead of a half baked kikuyu driver, he would have checked the oil and never burned out that bearing in the truck.
1936 August, Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 14 October 1938, →OCLC, page 153
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