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- noun Plural form of
half-pint .
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Examples
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This was the end of summer break and so many strung-together and erasable days, their nights spent at a crowded liquor store where they sold twelve-packs and half-pints and lottery tickets.
Summer Hits Kilean Kennedy 2011
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Long before Joe Camel was hawking smokes to the half-pints, Fred and Barney were pitching cigs to the Ralph Kramdens of the world during the 1960-66 prime-time run of "The Flintstones."
At 50, THE FLINTSTONES stand up as the bedrock of prime-time animated comedy Michael Cavna 2010
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With the help of Susan's lifelong friend Nancy who toted along her 5-year-old grandson, we coaxed farm-stand blueberries into eight half-pints of jam and transformed local cucumbers into 10 pints of bread-and-butter pickles.
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Or perhaps those discoveries took them farther away, dried-out cigarettes and hidden half-pints reminding you that everyone was little known.
Coping Stones Ann Beattie 2010
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In half-pints to half-price to half an hour visitor hours.
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Or perhaps those discoveries took them farther away, dried-out cigarettes and hidden half-pints reminding you that everyone was little known.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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Comics for the half-pints: What lights the fires of my little readers « The Retort
The childishness of comics, or: Hey, Kids! Comics aren’t just for you any more « The Retort 2009
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Comics for the half-pints: What lights the fires of my little readers
No, the Golden Globes did not snub ‘Star Trek’ « The Retort 2009
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Comics for the half-pints: What lights the fires of my little readers
The childishness of comics, or: Hey, Kids! Comics aren’t just for you any more « The Retort 2009
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Comics for the half-pints: What lights the fires of my little readers « The Retort
Comics for the half-pints: What lights the fires of my little readers « The Retort 2009
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