Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of half and half.
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of half and half.
plural half-and-halfs
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of half and half.
I had some really nice customers—there was a couple who bought only a pint of half-and-half once a week for their coffee—and I had some deadbeats, the kind of people who knew that if they ever paid their bill in full you’d drop them.
2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Introduction: Confession of a Comma Queen”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 51 more example
Accordingly, we went to a public house, near the Theatre, sat ourselves down in a quiet room upstairs on the first floor, and called for a pint of half-and-half, a-piece, and a pipe. “Well, Sir, we put our pipes aboard, and we drank our half-and-half, and sat a talking, very sociably, […]
1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, […], →OCLC, section I (The Pair of Gloves), page 577, column 2
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivein equal parts
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