Definition of "forty-five" []

• A .45-caliber pistol. (noun)
• A phonograph record designed to be played at 45 revolutions per minute. (noun)

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• "She flung open the door to locker forty-five, aka the Candy and Tampon Locker, and gestured at it forcibly, so that the ten of us sitting in the homeroom during third period could not help but notice that it contained no tampons."
• "One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today."
• "Respondents were offered $25 for completing the survey, which, on average, took between forty-five minutes and an hour to complete."