adj
Meaning 1
Loud and clear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
five-by-five
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
adj
Meaning 2
Fine; OK.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat, fatfuck, fatso, fattie, fatty, fatty bom bom, fatty boombalatty, fat-ass, fatass, fat fuck, fatshit, fussock, gorbelly, hambeast, hamplanet, heffalump, landwhale, lardass, lardbucket, lardo, oinker, obeast, pig, podge, porker, pudge, roly-poly, salad dodger, swagbelly, thunder thighs, tubbalard, tubba lard, tubbo, tub of guts, tub of lard, whale
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From radio communications phrase dating from the 1950s. The first five referred to a rating of signal clarity, the other to reception strength. See Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: cinq sur cinq — loud and clear
- Norwegian Bokmål: fem-av-fem — basketball term
- Turkish: beşte beş — basketball term