Origin of "half-inched" - OT

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Oct 27 12:37:01 2002

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Hans B Pufal wrote:

>
> My explanation, subject to correction, would be cockney rhyming slang :
>
> half-inched = pinched = stolen

  Ahh. That makes sense. Sort of. Speaking as a US-born hick, cockney
might as well be Ancient Greek, for all I can usually decipher it.

        Doc
Received on Sun Oct 27 2002 - 12:37:01 GMT