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What does half-expected mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of half-expect
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As we got out of the van we half-expected to see some old boy in dungarees with skin like a sun dried prune, sat in a rocking chair playing blues harmonica.
He half-expected the centre's doors to be locked, having heard it was closed for a few years, cut off by international funders due to mismanagement.
I half-expected to see Grace Adler walk up to the podium and complain about men while gorging on chocolate silk pie.
I half-expected him to give each manatee a friendly slap across the back, he reminded me so much of a local politician courting his constituents.
By the time Sam entered the front door through a pair of metal detectors, he half-expected to find the student hall monitors equipped with machine guns.
I half-expected him to barnstorm out in riding boots and harangue us, Mussolini-style, underlit from a plinth.

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