half-inch

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) To pinch, to steal.
    • 1942 December 9, “Rope”, in Punch, page 501:
      No cox'n will ever be hanged; he will always have "half-inched" the rope from the hangman first.
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