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five-by-five

[fahyv-bahy-fahyv]

adjective Slang: Facetious.

short and fat.

Origin:
1925–30

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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