Half-Inch – to steal.
Examples:
He half inched my wallet!
Don't you half inch anything, old chap! (old chap – mate, friend, dear)
That bloody thieves gone and half-inched my poodle!
Definitions from the English-Bulgarian dictionary:
- Inch [intʃ] – inch (2.54 cm)
- Half [ha:f] – half
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