When you’ve still got half a pint left but your mate offers you a drink and you don’t want to miss out, so you get a half pint with which to top up the glass. A common scenario since the decline of the fishing industry, so fishermen sit at a ‘spoons nursing a pint instead of fishing.
Ray: Want a pint mate?
Hank: Still got half, I’ll take a fisherman’s half
The plastic pool toy one of my friends stole from the public pool. They are the Half Lord of the Fishes, and the public pool fish is their son, The Quarter Lord of the Fishes.
Can also be used to describe someone with the attention span of a dead goldfish.
Person 1: Dude, Spencer was being such a Half Lord of the Fishes in class today.
Person 2: Indeed
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
A hardo is a person who tries extremely hard at everything. Most times a hardo will try very hard at things that do not require excessive effort. For example, sports practices, gym class, etc.
Wow did you see Jack at practice today? What a hardo!