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Meaning of half-inch | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To pinch, to steal.

Cockney, slang, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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