Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided or shared in two equal portions.
- adjective Being equally likely or unlikely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective equally large; -- of probabilities.
- noun a lottery in which the organizers retain fifty percent of the money wagered, and distribute fifty percent of the wagered money to the winner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in
half ; so that both parts of the whole are equal. - noun sports A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
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Examples
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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There's been no word of a pre-nup, so odds are good that a divorce court will order dissolution of the common property and a fifty-fifty split.
The Seduction of Archie Andrews Ulysses 2009
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My family spent their lives in fear of pissing off God and gentiles, and they split their time in each pursuit about fifty-fifty.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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With only two, it's a fifty-fifty split that one or the other is wrong.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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My family spent their lives in fear of pissing off God and gentiles, and they split their time in each pursuit about fifty-fifty.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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There's been no word of a pre-nup, so odds are good that a divorce court will order dissolution of the common property and a fifty-fifty split.
Archive 2009-05-01 Ulysses 2009
frangarnes commented on the word fifty-fifty
See: a pachas
October 23, 2007