Usually means: Shell partially removed, often seafood.
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  1. half shell: Merriam-Webster
  2. half shell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. half-shell: Wordnik
  4. half shell: Wiktionary
  5. half shell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. half shell: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. half shell: Dictionary.com
  8. half shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (half shell)

adjective:  (rare, colloquial, especially with "on the") Inexpensive; not overpriced.
noun:  (physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object.
noun:  (of food, especially with "on the") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams.

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