Not quite. A pint is a half of a quart, or QUARTer-gallon. A "fifth" is a fifth of a gallon, so a pint is an eighth of a gallon, while a half of a fifth would be one-tenth.
A liquor is just like any other liquid - a pint is a pint. Half a pint of liquor is like half a pint of water - 284 ml.
236.58 ml
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the imperial pint is equal one eighth of an imperial gallon..* .
A fifth of liquor is 750 ml of liquor. The name represents the fact that it is almost 1/5 of a gallon but is actually short by about 8 ml.
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