pints

Noun

pint (plural pints)

1. (Commonwealth, UK) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
   • The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
2. (US) 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
3. (US) approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
4. (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
5. (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
   • The prices of the second class are given by the ounce; thus […] for a pint, of 12 ounces;1822, The Monthly Gazette of Health, page 832
6. (UK, metonymically) A pint of milk.
   • Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.

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