Definition of "fifty-fifty" []

• Divided or shared in two equal portions: a fifty-fifty split. (adjective)
• Being equally likely or unlikely: had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the first three months of the new year, she was in what I call the fifty-fifty zone."
• "My family spent their lives in fear of pissing off God and gentiles, and they split their time in each pursuit about fifty-fifty."
• "There's been no word of a pre-nup, so odds are good that a divorce court will order dissolution of the common property and a fifty-fifty split."