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Definition of Fifty-fifty
1. Adjective. Equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced. "An even fight"
Definition of Fifty-fifty
1. Adverb. in half; so that both parts of the whole are equal. ¹
2. Noun. (sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fifty-fifty
Literary usage of Fifty-fifty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"going at fifty, fifty, fifty'—seventy!—ninety.' —splendid .'—a hundred !—pile it
up, pile it up!—hundred and twenty—forty! ..."
2. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"THE FRUITS OF fifty-fifty LOYALTY MARCH 2, 1918 A CAPTAIN in the regular army of
... Its leaders have sometimes been men who practiced a fifty-fifty loyalty ..."
3. Child Training by Angelo Patri (1922)
"fifty-fifty The Carters were always sure that the children who lived next door
were about the most mischievous and the most annoying children imaginable. ..."
4. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"They reported back later that he had got it in the thigh and not the stomach,
and a lad told me he kept yelling for Doc and singing fifty-fifty. ..."
5. Millionaires of a Day: An Inside History of the Great Southern California "boom" by Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1890)
""One fifty, fifty, fifty; give us two hundred now, quick." " I believe I will
try that just for a flyer," said a thin-lipped man of some sixty years as he ..."
6. Report of the War Trade Board by United States War Trade Board (1920)
"Steam vessels, fifty-fifty agreement.—No shipping agreement was reached by ...
However, through what is known as the fifty-fifty agreement concluded with ..."
7. War Time Control of Distribution of Foods: A Short History of the by Albert Newton Merritt (1920)
"... rule in order to require the sale of wheat flour substitutes with wheat flour,
as provided in the " fifty-fifty " rule, which we will now consider. ..."
8. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"This fifty-fifty plan is improving our roads, and therefore reducing the isolation
which is responsible for much illiteracy and child-neglect. ..."
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