Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small person or animal.
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- noun A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a
pint . - noun Half a pint of beer.
- noun idiomatic A small
child .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disparaging terms for small people
Etymologies
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Examples
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So yeah, my sister D was recently cleaning up around her condo and she stumbled upon a letter I wrote to her when she was in college, and this half-pint of a comic strip was included.
A Comic Strip from Many Years Ago pabba 2009
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I would have thought the answer was obvious -- yes, of course: politics is barely more than skin-deep -- but the malignant half-pint disagrees.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Soon after that, a friend who worked in a Florida hospital would send 3,000 half-pint glass infant formula bottles with airtight lids.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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At Sunday's Bloomingdale Farmers Market, find pints of pickled beets, sauerkraut, fermented salsa and bloody mary mix, pickled hot pepers in half-pint jars; new cured meats such as guanciale, lonzino and lomo; Painted Hand will have goat; Garner expects to have sweet corn; Snow Bear will have Romaine and purple Osaka mustard greens; Copper Pot will have mallard duck ragout.
Market Roundup: Oct. 14-Oct. 20 Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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Soon after that, a friend who worked in a Florida hospital would send 3,000 half-pint glass infant formula bottles with airtight lids.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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Soon after that, a friend who worked in a Florida hospital would send 3,000 half-pint glass infant formula bottles with airtight lids. âSeemed a shame to hide these beautiful bean seeds in opaque plastic.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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I have an attachment for my foodsaver that lets you vac-seal ordinary mason jars which makes sealing liquids a snap ... works on half-pint, pint and quart sized jars!
Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The two-thirds is an additional measure to the pint, half-pint and virtually unknown third.
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Soon after that, a friend who worked in a Florida hospital would send 3,000 half-pint glass infant formula bottles with airtight lids. âSeemed a shame to hide these beautiful bean seeds in opaque plastic.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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At Sunday's Bloomingdale Farmers Market, find pints of mild beet kimchi, pear chutney, pastured chicken stock, natural sun-dried tomatoes from certified organic tomatoes plus pickled hot peppers in half-pint jars, fermented tomato salsa and pickled beans.
Market Roundup: Oct. 21-Oct. 27 Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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