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.
adjective
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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
Some Californians police colleagues at work to, say, toss a half-drunk cup of water on a plant and not down the drain.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2015
He could tell from the fire and from the half-drunk cup of wine beside it that Loki had been there only moments before he arrived.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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