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
Example Sentences
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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 Garrett, Randall
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