Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A .45-caliber pistol.
- noun A phonograph record designed to be played at 45 revolutions per minute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game of cards, played with a full pack, in which each trick counts five and the game is forty-five.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Cardinal number after
forty-four and beforeforty-six .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being five more than forty
- noun a .45-caliber pistol
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Examples
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She flung open the door to locker forty-five, aka the Candy and Tampon Locker, and gestured at it forcibly, so that the ten of us sitting in the homeroom during third period could not help but notice that it contained no tampons.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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She flung open the door to locker forty-five, aka the Candy and Tampon Locker, and gestured at it forcibly, so that the ten of us sitting in the homeroom during third period could not help but notice that it contained no tampons.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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She flung open the door to locker forty-five, aka the Candy and Tampon Locker, and gestured at it forcibly, so that the ten of us sitting in the homeroom during third period could not help but notice that it contained no tampons.
mostly good girls Leila Sales 2010
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One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.
Frindle Andrew Clements 1996
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One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.
Frindle Andrew Clements 1996
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Respondents were offered $25 for completing the survey, which, on average, took between forty-five minutes and an hour to complete.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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We must have been in there for about forty-five minutes and it was ending perfectly—until I cussed again.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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Eight years ago I weighed more than a hundred and forty-five pounds and was concerned about an upcoming video shoot.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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It takes forty-five minutes for him to drive there, but he never wavers.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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But it was not always as easy as having a word with myself and falling back on Tim, because those one-hours sometimes felt a decade long and there were two or three occasions when I lasted only forty-five minutes and had to leave.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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