half-drunk
Americanadjective
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partly inebriated; partly drunk with alcohol.
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(of a drink or its container) partly consumed or emptied by drinking.
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“It looked like they’d gone to lunch — half-drunk coffee cups still on the desks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
"You'd walk into an office, there would be a coffee cup half-drunk, a doughnut with a bite taken out of it," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2023
The remaining Oreos are at the bottom of the bed, and there is a half-drunk chocolate milkshake in the sink.
From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2018
When I went to see him a few weeks after Regeni’s death, Nagy, a wiry chain-smoker, was perched behind a Louis XIV-style desk piled with papers and half-drunk cups of coffee.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2017
Three plates with sandwich crusts and half-drunk glasses of orange juice are still on the table.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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