half-inch

Meanings

verbhalf-inch (third-person singular simple present half-inches, present participle half-inching, simple past and past participle half-inched)

present singular third person half-inches · participle present half-inching · participle past half-inched · past half-inched

CockneyslangtransitiveTo pinch, to steal.
No cox'n will ever be hanged; he will always have "half-inched" the rope from the hangman first.
1942 December 9, “Rope”, in Punch, page 501

nounhalf-inch (plural half-inches)

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