English Explanatory Dictionary

five-by-five

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Loud and clear.
  2. Fine; OK.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

five-by-five five by five five-by-fives

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

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
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