half shell
English edit
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Adjective edit
- (rare, colloquial, especially with "on the") Inexpensive; not overpriced.
Noun edit
half shell (countable and uncountable, plural half shells)
- (physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object.
- (of food, especially with "on the") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams.