fifty
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- noun
- /ˈfɪfti/
- US
- Fifties and hundreds.
Examples
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The SUIT throws him? 500. #SUIT #Fifties.
Fiction book (1998) -
Fifties.
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Finally, the name settled on was "Postwar Fifty Year Resolution."
Academic text (2004) -
Fifties.
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Fifties.
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Fifties and hundreds makes a pile about... [sniffles]...so big.
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Fifties and sixties, though, when discipline problems were throwing spitballs and talking in class.
Blog text (14) -
And as luck would have it, the very next issue of the magazine, the March one, carried an article of mine on the notorious hangings in Baghdad involving a number of plainly innocent Jews who chose to stay and work in Iraq after the mass exodus of the early Fifties.
Fiction book (1994) -
I found a crisp fifty in my jacket pocket when I was getting ready to go out.
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After winning the raffle, she received a fifty as her prize.
Synonyms
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A piece of paper money worth fifty dollars in the United States
Compounds
- Informal
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A joking name for a place like Puerto Rico or Canada that people think may become a US state
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fifty for a fifty-dollar bill simply uses the number name that means 'five tens'. The bill is called a fifty because it is 'worth fifty dollars'.