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half-cut

adjective

  1. partially severed or divided

    half-cut citrus fruits lying around

  2. informal.
    intoxicated with alcohol

    he looks half-cut already



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While the bacon was crispy and cooked to visual perfection, it consisted of a few half-cut strips and a spoonful of cuts bits.

The link which he was filing snapped when only half cut through: the whole apparatus swung violently.

Mother's portrait half-cut from its frame stood on the floor.

All work, it seemed, had ceased; the crops were half cut, and stooks of corn were lying about everywhere.

Before it was half cut, I sold to a livery-stable keeper in Exeter fifty tons of bright timothy for $600.

“Got their antlers half cut off; just stubs left,” he told himself.

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