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forty-five

numeralnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌfɔːtiˈfaɪv//
  • United States//ˌfɔɹtiˈfaɪv//

Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.

numeral

  1. 1

    Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.

noun

  1. 1

    A .45-caliber firearm.

    The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.

    The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five

Forms

plural
forty-fives
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).