HALF-PINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-pint mean? 

• HALF-PINT (noun)
  The noun HALF-PINT has 1 sense:

1. disparaging terms for small people

  Familiarity information: HALF-PINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-PINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disparaging terms for small people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

half-pint; peewee; runt; shrimp

Hypernyms ("half-pint" is a kind of...):

small person (a person of below average size)

 Context examples 

Pray give him a half-pint of warmish milk with six drops of pure brandy in it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Come in, Mr. Fidelio. Every man to his own taste, and six drops to the half-pint seems a sinful watering of grog—but if you like it so, you shall have it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)