Usually means: Phase between new and full moon.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word half-moon:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-moon: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-moon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half-moon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half-moon, half-moon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. half-moon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Half-Moon, Half-moon, half-moon: Wordnik
  7. half-moon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. half-moon: Wiktionary
  9. half-moon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. half-moon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. half-moon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. half-moon: Dictionary.com
  13. Half-moon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. half-moon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. half-moon: Rhymezone
  16. Half-moon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. half-moon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. half-moon: FreeDictionary.org
  19. half-moon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. half-moon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-moon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-moon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. half-moon: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-moon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The moon in its first or last quarter when only half the visible face is illuminated; a quarter moon.
noun:  Anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail.
noun:  A semicircular or crescent-shaped Filipino butter cookie.
noun:  Synonym of black and white (“type of cookie”)

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