HALF-AND-HALF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-and-half mean? 

• HALF-AND-HALF (noun)
  The noun HALF-AND-HALF has 1 sense:

1. half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat

  Familiarity information: HALF-AND-HALF used as a noun is very rare.

• HALF-AND-HALF (adjective)
  The adjective HALF-AND-HALF has 1 sense:

1. in equal parts

  Familiarity information: HALF-AND-HALF used as an adjective is very rare.

• HALF-AND-HALF (adverb)
  The adverb HALF-AND-HALF has 1 sense:

1. in equal parts

  Familiarity information: HALF-AND-HALF used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-AND-HALF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("half-and-half" is a kind of...):

dairy product (milk and butter and cheese)

• HALF-AND-HALF (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In equal parts

Context example:

a half-and-half mixture

Similar:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

• HALF-AND-HALF (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In equal parts

Context example:

it was divided half-and-half

Pertainym:

half-and-half (in equal parts)

 Context examples 

Such half-and-half doings never prosper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half-and-half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)