halfway crook

An impossibility or oxymoron. You either are or are not a crook. You can't steal a little bit from someone and be called a partial thief. You have taken, you are a thief, period. Therefore to say someone is a halfway crook is to refer to an impossibility.

This term was made popular by Mobb Deep in the song "Shook Ones" when they called whack niggahs out who were "Scared to death, scared to look, you shook, cuz ain't no such thing as Halfway Crooks"

We stealing this car or what? Go hard or go home, sun. Ain't no such thing as Halfway Crooks.

halfway crook by MadP July 13, 2010

Halfway Crook

Poser; Fake; Someone who tries to act hard and is really a BIG PUSSY

"scared to death, scared to look

they shook
'cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks"

Shook Ones Pt. II Mobb Deep

Note: Eminem uses this verse in a rap battle against Papa Doc in 8 Mile

Halfway Crook by Greyson91394 November 22, 2010

halfway crook

A poser. Someone who professes to live one style of life but reality tells a much different story.

Used as a diss in freestyleraping to describe someone who claims to be a thug or hard but is very much the opposite.

Guy 1- "Yo', Ja Rule is the realest nigga representin' the streets!"
Guy 2- "Hell no he ain't! He's a halfway crook"

halfway crook by ACG2x March 4, 2005

half way crook 

Does not exist. The fact that this definition is even here is a paradox.

"Scared to death, Scared to look, they shook,
'cause aint no such thing as half way crooks"
-M.D.

half way crook by iraqigangsta January 18, 2008

Ain’t no such things as halfway crooks

Phrase from Mobb Deep’s “Shook One’s Pt. II” 1995, meaning that you are either a crook (thief) or you aren’t

What Mobb Deep is referring to as halfway crooks are rappers who act hard but really aren’t

“Scared to death and scared to look, they shook, ‘cause no ain’t no such things as halfway crooks”

Ain’t no such things as halfway crooks by EminemONTOP June 8, 2022

ain't no such things as halfway crooks 

the motto of Saudi Arabia

saudi police: I see you just stole a piece of bread, I'm gonna have to cut off your hand for that

thief: That's not fair, it was only a piece of bread!

saudi police: Sorry baby, ain't no such things as halfway crooks *slashes hand off with le epic curved sword*

ain't no such things as halfway crooks by timhoe December 15, 2020

Halfway Crooks 

A definition of a fake gangster, comes from Mobb Deep's hit "Shook Ones, pt. 2". Popularized mainly by the movie 8-mile and today used mostly by little white kids discovering their glutus maximuses starting to grow.

Person A: Ima snatch this fake ass niggas chain after I come hone from the office.
Person B: man aint no such thing as halfway crooks

Halfway Crooks by DJ_Sikk October 10, 2016