Half a pint of beer or other drink.
Used in a Sentence
half-pint
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for half-pint.
Editorial note
However, in pubs and restaurants, the standard glasses are 568ml and half of that, for a half-pint.
Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Half a pint of beer or other drink.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of half-pint gathered in one view.
A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint.
(colloquial) A small or short person.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for half-pint.
noun
Half a pint of beer or other drink.
noun
A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint.
noun
(colloquial) A small or short person.
noun
(colloquial) A small child.
Example sentences
However, in pubs and restaurants, the standard glasses are 568ml and half of that, for a half-pint.
Zero trolling: Have you considered just buying a half-pint (~250ml) of milk at the covenience store, instead of (presumably) wasting much more?
A half-pint of your finest Combinatorial Hopf, if you please!
After a half-pint my coding goes to crap, so I never code drunk.
Not that you're very likely to encounter British fluid ounces any more, the smallest imperial unit of volume I generally run into is the half-pint.
In pubs, you often see groups of phone people, each with a half-pint in front of them, each furiously texting away to people they'd rather be spending time with.
It's modelled after the handle on larger jugs, which permit the user to hold the jug-- but that makes sense on a gallon jug, and not on a half-pint jug.
A half-pint of water is nice but hardly necessary - it won't convert a horrible ride into a great one, and its absence doesn't make a great ride a bad one.
I think I only fully wasted the first batch of 8 half-pint jams I made, which were basically fruit leather, otherwise things have turned out pretty well.
Quote examples
Navy established in 1794 that sailors were to receive “one half-pint of distilled spirits” a day.
A "drink" here is 14g alcohol, in the UK a "unit" is 8g, and that's a half-pint of beer or a small wine.
Most places, "thanks, I'll have a half" and add the price of a half-pint, London, more often the price of a pint; in Liverpool an offer of "and take your own" adds 20-50p.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use half-pint in a sentence?
However, in pubs and restaurants, the standard glasses are 568ml and half of that, for a half-pint.
What does half-pint mean?
Half a pint of beer or other drink.
What part of speech is half-pint?
half-pint is commonly used as noun.