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half-baked

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half-baked

  [haf-beykt, hahf-]
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–adjective
1. insufficiently cooked.
2. not completed; insufficiently planned or prepared: a half-baked proposal for tax reform.
3. lacking mature judgment or experience; unrealistic.
Origin:
1615–25
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half-baked   (hāf'bākt', häf'-)
adj.  

  1. Only partly baked.

  2. Informal Insufficiently thought out; ill-conceived: a half-baked scheme.

  3. Informal Exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense: a half-baked visionary.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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half-baked

  1. mod.
    badly thought out. : It would have been approved if it weren't so half-baked.
  2. mod.
    alcohol intoxicated. : Fred got himself sort of half-baked every Saturday night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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