pintpint /paɪnt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
Add two pints of water to the mixture. half a pint of milk a pint glass (=a glass which will hold a pint of liquid)2British English a pint of beer, especially one that you drink in a bar → half: He’s gone down the pub for a quick pint.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINpint
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French pinte, from Medieval Latin pincta, from Latin, past participle of pingere ‘to paint’; probably because a mark was painted on a bottle to show how much it containedEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- a pint of milk
- And after some jokes, and a pint of beer, we stood up as we remembered.
- Born with a kidney defect, he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy.
- Cut the bottom off a four pint plastic milk container to make a free food scoop.
- He's more used to the communion wine than pulling pints.
- He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.
- He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
- It would appear that the rocker cover is becoming pressurised and oil consumption is approximately one pint per 150-200 miles.
- Tony, 47, who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night, just can't resist a good time.
WORD SETS► Drink
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a pint of beer
1 (written abbreviation pt) a unit for measuring an amount of liquid, especially beer or milk. In Britain a pint is equal to 0.568 litres, and in the US it is equal to 0.473 litrespint of· Two pints of beer, please.
► a pint of milk· I need to buy a pint of milk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► glass· Dempster banged on the bar with his pint glass, once.· He studiously finished filling the pint glass, ignoring the raucous voices from the other end of the bar for the moment.· Yet here he was, standing at the bar, each hand gripping a pint glass, with all eyes on him.
► pot· For example, how do I get a quart of soup into a pint pot?· Yet, ironically, car production today is still being crammed into a pint pot.· So you was always greeted with a drink out of this pint pot.· For most gardeners, a garden is like a pint pot - you can not get a quart into it.· Next to him, a hard-looking white youth stared gloomily into an almost-empty pint pot.· His enormous arm went over Rory's head, the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
VERB► buy· At the bar a leather-clad schoolboy was buying a pint of lager, served in a plastic beaker.· He went right out and bought a pint of whisky to host me proper.· We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony.· Lorton bought him a pint of Guinness and a whisky chaser.· Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint.
► drink· Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.· Petersburg Times, drank a pint of gin a day.· Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.· He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.· On a Friday night he would drink a pint of lemonade at the bar.· One member of the team must drink a pint of beer at the start and consume another four on the way.· The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer.· Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979.
► order· John ordered a pint of bitter and a sweet martini.· As Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another pint, he could not suppress a private smile at Minter's expense.· Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter.· So I ordered a pint of bitter, and then another.· I knew he was perfect for me the first time I heard him order a pint of mild.· I would order a pint of cold beer.· I celebrated that night by ordering my first pint of beer and lighting up my first Woodbine.
► pull· He asked if he thought he could pull a pint, then hired him on the spot.· Jack's pulling a pint and I nip into the loo.· Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray.
Add two pints of water to the mixture. half a pint of milk a pint glass (=a glass which will hold a pint of liquid)2British English a pint of beer, especially one that you drink in a bar → half: He’s gone down the pub for a quick pint.