英和和英

動詞

half-inch (三人称単数 現在形 half-inches, 現在分詞 half-inching, 過去形および過去分詞形 half-inched)

1. (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) To pinch, to steal.
   • 1942, "Rope", in Punch (9 December 1942), page 501:

     No cox'n will ever be hanged; he will always have "half-inched" the rope from the hangman first.