pint

Examples

• All

• She ordered a pint of lager to celebrate her birthday.

• Oh, and a pint of beer.

  Bulldog Drummond (1929)

• We just went for a pint and it's nice.

• Guys, look at the size of this pint compared to my hand.

• Bring me back a pint of the ice cream of the month.

  Fiction book (1992)

• He'll sit for eight hours and drink two pints of beer and never say a word.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Go down the pub, have a couple of pints, turn the phone off.

• We've been paying too much for a pint of orange juice all these years.

  Fiction book (1995)

• We buy milkshakes and pour a pint of Scotch into them.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The family relied on fatty meat, salt, cheese and butter, washed down with pint after pint of whole milk.

Compounds

P

pint-size

• Informal

10 4.4

Very small in height, usually used for a person or animal

H

half-pint

3 2.6

A small glass of drink about half the size of a pint, often for beer or milk

H

half-pint

• Offensive

2 8.2

A rude name for a small or short person, often a child

P

pint-sized version

• Informal

1 3.7

A small copy of something, like a toy or model

H

half-pint glass

1 3.2

A small drinking cup that holds half a pint

D

dry pint

• Specialized

6.6

A US unit for measuring dry food and goods equal to about 550 millilitres

Surface Forms

Etymology