five-by-five
adjective
short and fat.
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five by five
five by fiveinterjectionan expression used in telecommunications to state that a signal is being received clearly
five-by-five
American
[fahyv-bahy-fahyv]
/ ˈfaɪv baɪˈfaɪv /
adjective
Slang: Facetious.
five by five
British
interjection
Etymology
Origin of five-by-five
First recorded in 1925–30
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Their approach involved five sessions per day for five days, known as five-by-five, or "5x5."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
Players work with two builders on a five-by-five board, using one builder per turn to start or add a level to an adjacent building.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2017
Lyndon Johnson, folksy but serious during the State of the Union of 1968, appears 24 times in a five-by-five grid of TV screens, the center left blank like the free space on a bingo card.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2015
When he returned, the boy was missing, but Moore noticed that the two blanks were side by side in one of the five-by-five tile quadrants, on his opponent’s side of the table.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2012
He walked over to the nearby table and opened a box some twelve inches long and five-by-five inches in cross section.
From Anything You Can Do! by Randall Garrett
Because the telescope is so compact, the team also examined a satellite carrying a five by five array of telescopes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
Being five by five External link can mean things are fine in rocketry.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But if the powers that be, including Gellar, the Zuckermans, Zhao and executive producer Gail Berman, are able to avoid the pitfalls of those that came before, everything should be five by five.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025
Then do the same with a different number of blue cubes — say, five by five by five.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2015
He scuttled to the rear of the shop and came back with a ready-wrapped package measuring five by five by four.
From Unwise Child by Randall Garrett
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