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fifty-fifty

adverb 50-50 · 50/50 · 50 50 · 50.50 · fifty fifty · fifty/fifty

  1. not comparable In half: in two equal parts, shares, etc. I'll handle production, you handle sales, and we'll split profits fifty-fifty.

adjective 50-50 · 50/50 · 50 50 · 50.50 · fifty fifty · fifty/fifty

  1. not comparable Half and half. In this recipe, the flour and sugar are fifty-fifty.
  2. not comparable Used to describe two possible outcomes as being equally likely. It is fifty-fifty that the employee who made the mistake will end up fired.

noun fifty-fifties · 50-50 · 50/50 · 50 50 · 50.50 · fifty fifty

  1. A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of fifty-fifty grind, a rail or edge grind, using both trucks to grind along, longitudinally aligned.
  3. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide, a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.

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adv in half

Españolen dos mitades, cincuenta-cincuenta
한국어반반 banban
日本語半々 hanhan
中文各半 gèbàn
Portuguêsao meio
Françaisfifty-fifty, cinquante-cinquante, moitié-moitié
Deutschfifty-fifty, halbe-halbe, halbpart
Italianoa metà
Русскийпо́ровну pórovnu, попола́м popolám, пятьдеся́т на пятьдеся́т pjatʹdesját na pjatʹdesját, фи́фти-фи́фти fífti-fífti
العربيةمُنَاصَفَةً munāṣafatan, بِالنِّصْف bi-n-niṣf

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@misc{fifty_fifty_2026,
  title = {fifty-fifty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fifty-fifty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}