Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fifty-fifty \fifty-fifty\ adj. equally large; -- of probabilities.
Syn: even.
fifty-fifty \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.
Wiktionary
adv. in half; so that both parts of the whole are equal. n. (context sports English) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.
WordNet
adj. equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight" [syn: even]
Wikipedia
Fifty-Fifty is a lost 1925 silent era drama film starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore, and Louise Glaum.
Directed and produced by Henri Diamant-Berger for the production company Encore Pictures, Fifty-Fifty is a remake of a 1916 Norma Talmadge film also titled Fifty-fifty that was directed by Allan Dwan, who wrote the original story.
It was exhibited the week of January 3, 1926, in Los Angeles, at the Hillstreet Theatre, which featured both vaudeville and movies.
Fifty-Fifty is an American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan whose story was adapted for the screen by Robert Shirley. The Fine Arts Film Company production was made under the aegis of Triangle Film Corporation which released it on October 22, 1916. The leading roles are played by Norma Talmadge, J. W. Johnston, and Marie Chambers. A print of the film is in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
Fifty-Fifty is a farce by H. F. Maltby, adapted from a French original, Azaïs, by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr. It was the penultimate work of the series of Aldwych farces that ran nearly continuously at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1923 to 1933. The play centres on the sudden rise of an impoverished music teacher to become manager of a grand casino.
The piece opened on 5 September 1932 and ran until 21 January 1933, a total of 161 performances. A film adaptation was made in 1933 under the title Just My Luck.
Usage examples of "fifty-fifty".
Horsey tosses a coin for the first pick, and Joel Duffle says heads, and it is heads, and he chooses, as the first course, two quarts of ripe olives, twelve bunches of celery, and four pounds of shelled nuts, all this to be split fifty-fifty between them.
Jute a fifty-fifty deal, the same terms that Jute had made with Fence Cortho.
Kilby had no intention of sharing the blackmail loot with Swade on a fifty-fifty basis.
Markov is half owner of the house because the parties agreed twenty years ago to work together as partners in building Markov Enterprises, and to share the fruit of their labor fifty-fifty.
Qualified oddsmakers are giving the standoff a fifty-fifty chance of turning into open warfare before the Magefleet even shows up.
PUK and the KDP had agreed to a fifty-fifty split of the smuggling revenues, but the KDP consistently stiffed the PUK.
It occurs to me that just based on brainpower alone, a fifty-fifty partnership may not be the most equitable arrangement ever to come down the pike.
On a fifty-fifty basis with tens of thousands of farmers, we've also built thousands of small plastic-lined, plastic-covered catchments to minimize winter-rain runoff.
I would share my last bar of almond rock with you, and you would cut me in fifty-fifty on your last bag of acid drops.
If such a contract had specified a fifty-fifty split, then x would be equal to fifty percent of the cash value of the wreck times the one tenth of Epiphyte that the Dentist owns minus a few percent for taxes and other frictional effects of the real world.
We split the household expenses fifty-fifty, and each contributed monthly stipends to our joint savings and checking accounts.
When the cell doubles, at the polar body stage, the virus doesn't double, and it has a fifty-fifty chance of staying with the oocyte or being discarded with the polar body.
My people tell me there’s a fifty-fifty chance the preclinical trials will fail.
That was part of the premarriage contract, everything to be split fifty-fifty.
Operate the detector for a period just long enough that there is a fifty-fifty chance that one radioactive decay will be recorded.