half-inch

== English == === Verb === half-inch (third-person singular simple present half-inches, present participle half-inching, simple past and past participle half-inched) (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) To pinch, to steal. === Noun === half-inch (plural half-inches) Alternative form of half inch. === References === “half-inch v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present “half-inch, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.