Definition of "even-steven" [even-steven]

• Informal Having nothing due or owed on either side: an even-steven transaction. (adjective)
• Informal Having an equal score, as in a game or contest. (adjective)

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• "The friend who still owes my daughter for a Jimmy Eat World ticket from 2004 and never chipped in for the car rental for the trip from Boston to Albany, or the gas, or the lodging, and who honestly believes that everything's even-steven because she staked my kid to a latte on the way back."
• "It is now even-steven going into the 2012 election."
• "Atkins came to rue the even-steven split, but at the time, he figured there was no way “big, bad Boeing” would take a minority position in such a venture."