Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-cut
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He wasn't half-cut, but completely so.
Usage examples of "half-cut".
The flameless tapers stand where we had left them, and beside them lies the half-cut book that we had been studying, or the wired flower that we had worn at the ball, or the letter that we had been afraid to read, or that we had read too often.