Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.44%20Magnum handgun num. The cardinal number immediately following forty-three and preceding forty-five.
WordNet
adj. being four more than forty [syn: 44, xliv]
Wikipedia
"Forty-Four" or "44 Blues" is a blues standard whose origins have been traced back to early 1920s Louisiana. However, it was Roosevelt Sykes, who provided the lyrics and first recorded it in 1929, that helped popularize the song. "Forty-Four," through numerous adaptations and recordings, remains in the blues lexicon eighty years later.
Usage examples of "forty-four".
To these he added a more solid present, of one hundred and forty-four thousand Byzantines of gold, with a further assurance of two hundred and sixteen thousand, so soon as Henry should have entered in arms the Apulian territories, and confirmed by an oath the league against the common enemy.
She remembered his irruption into Bohemia, in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, at a time when she thought that country, and all her other dominions, secure from his invasion by the treaty of Breslau, which she had in no particular contravened.
That income, being valued at that said time at from forty-four to forty-five million maravedis annually in the three districts of Castilla, Toledo, and Andalucia, dropped to twenty-two millions because of the new imposition, thereby losing a like sum annually.
The day before, President Roosevelt had sent a ringing message to the chiefs of state of forty-four nations outlining the plans and hopes of the United States for disarmament and peace and calling for the abolition of all offensive weapons - bombers, tanks and mobile heavy artillery.
By the time Steve had located two sufficiently large conchs, Doris, Karl, and Ted Raymond had transferred the forty-four shells to the beach, and had stood them up with spiral end toward the sun.
Seems that over near Encinal, few miles east of the town on State Forty-four, there was a couple named Larker.
On September 23, Jones encountered, off Flamborough Head, a fleet of forty British merchantmen, under convoy of the Serapis, Captain Pearson, of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough, a ship of twenty guns.
Toni White, an attractive woman of forty-four, owned a Guarnieri del Jesu violin.
Austin Bull who, after a Methodist boyhood, a decade as an eloquent and money-raising Episcopal minister, and a couple of years as secretary of an elephantine university, had, at forty-four, come to Kinnikinick as president.
They saved twelve dollars and forty-four cents by using coupons, a feat that delighted Rags until they stopped at the liquor store and spent several times that amount on beer, wine, and peanuts.
A villain who died whilst I was under the Leads had passed thirty-seven years in The Wells, and he was forty-four when sentenced.
Besides Cronje, Wolverans of the Transvaal, and the German artillerist Albrecht, with forty-four other field-cornets and commandants, fell into our hands.
For two days and nights, forty-seven and a half hours, one hundred forty-four revolutions of the asteroid from Earthlight to starlight, the two men had overseen the faxing out of the healing tanks until only a dozen or so bodies were left.
They proved to be three forty-four gun frigates, with a corvette of twenty-four and a brig of twelve.
The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had simultaneously launched assaults against thirty-six of the forty-four South Vietnamese provincial capitals, five of six autonomous cities, twenty three allied airfields and bases, including Tan Son Nhut, Bien Hoa, and Long Binh on the outskirts of Saigon.