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Examples
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He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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The raw experiences of our visits were supplemented with painful, until-then-suppressed memories from childhood of being stuck in bank holiday traffic for hours with the distant promise of seeing half-cut morris men stagger about a village fete.
Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011
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Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011
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There won't be any barney-mugging but we can get half-cut my little goof.
A Flapper's Dictionary (1922) The Nag 2009
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He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011
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He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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Actually, even half-cut it would not have been difficult to see which way the match was going.
Andy Murray swears by bad body language in Australian Open defeat | Martin Kelner 2011
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He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
yarb commented on the word half-cut
...that little bloke
(what was his name? He
seemed always half-cut,
Reading or something)...
- Peter Reading, Diptych, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008