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Fifty-fifty   /fˈɪfti-fˈɪfti/   Listen
noun
fifty-fifty  n.  A lottery in which the organizers retain fifty percent of the money wagered, and distribute fifty percent of the wagered money to the winner.



adjective
fifty-fifty  adj.  Equally large; of probabilities.
Synonyms: even.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fifty-fifty" Quotes from Famous Books



... Milsom, "the fellow's a crook, all these Yankee detectives are grafters. He saw a chance of a big rake off and took it, fifty-fifty of a million fortune is ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... has got something to say about that gold mine," Casey blurted desperately. "It's hers by rights. She'd have to go fifty-fifty on it. She's got it coming, and I never cheated anybody yet. I ain't going to commence on an ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... "All right, we'll go fifty-fifty with you," Frank agreed cheerily. "Here, Grace, step in the middle—that's the way. Now we are all ...
— The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island - Or, A Cave and What It Contained • Laura Lee Hope

... are others of us who travel on nerve and gall and never get any further! Just put this in your pipe, Bub, and don't forget it: Conrad is organised for whatever deviltry he is up to! There is no 'happen so' in his schemes. He is a cog in some political wheel, and it's a fifty-fifty gamble as to whether the wheel is German or Mexican, but it is no little thing, and is ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan

... curled up on Nancy's couch eating chocolates; Nancy had just had a birthday and Jack had sent her a gratifyingly large box of candy with the injunction to go "fifty-fifty" with Judith and thus save herself from a ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett


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