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n. 1 A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint. 2 Half a pint of beer. 3 (context idiomatic English) A small child.
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A half pint has two common meanings: half of a pint (a unit of volume) or an expression for a short person or small child.
Half-pint or Half Pint may also refer to:
- Half Pint, stage name of Jamaican reggae singer Lindon Roberts (born 1961)
- Half-Pint, stage name of Cassandra Jackson, a female rapper in Son of Bazerk, a hip-hop band
- Don "Half Pint" Santos, former member of the American R&B group IMx
- Half-Pint, nickname of Gene Rye (1906-1980), Major League baseball player
- Half-Pint, nickname of character Le Van Hawke portrayed by actor Roland Harrah III
- Half-Pint, nickname of character Laura Ingalls Wilder portrayed by actor Melissa Gilbert
- "Half-Pint", an episode of the TV series Airwolf
Usage examples of "half-pint".
I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon.
Between times, he drained his half-pint and the blended whisky which had accompanied it, so he could now concentrate on the malt.
He's a half-pint imitation of Black Jack Slade, the desperado of dime novel fame.
Denga Rey, watching the practice at the tower one day, suggested that the half-pints of the troop use halberds instead.
He stood for a moment, studying his two half-pints, dainty little assassins with blood in their hair.
And there were two half-pints of whiskey in his pockets, and another half in his stomach.
By the standards of her upbringing she was on the highroad to harlotry, but no harm ever befell her, and Eccles seemed to look on her as a friend, and to ply her with half-pints for no reason other than that he liked her.
And every afternoon, at five minutes past three, the people in the Dairies saw two Indian boys sitting at opposite ends of the milk bar, drinking half-pints of milk through straws, not looking at one another, never speaking.
But buying a so-called half-pint now and then (striking a blow for liberty, the more robust males called it, a trifle shamefacedly) was one thing, and condoning moonshining and bootlegging in their midst was something else again.