"five-by-five" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-five-by-five.wav
Etymology: From radio communications phrase dating from the 1950s. The first five referred to a rating of signal clarity, the other to reception strength. See Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia. Etymology templates: {{pedia|Signal strength and readability report}} Signal strength and readability report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} five-by-five (not comparable)
  1. Loud and clear. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Five Translations (loud and clear): cinq sur cinq (French)
    Sense id: en-five-by-five-en-adj-kne~ti4Y Disambiguation of Five: 37 20 25 18 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 20 13 18 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 61 14 9 15 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 69 11 7 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 22 12 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 22 10 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 53 17 12 18 Disambiguation of 'loud and clear': 94 6
  2. Fine; OK. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-five-by-five-en-adj-CEzAcbYI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: five by five
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-five-by-five.wav Forms: five-by-fives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} five-by-five (plural five-by-fives)
  1. (basketball) A performance in which a player accumulates five points in each of five statistical categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) in a single game. Categories (topical): Basketball Translations (basketball term): fem-av-fem [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-five-by-five-en-noun-W6IV70tV Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'basketball term': 79 21
  2. (slang) Someone whose body is roughly shaped like a square; a short and fat person. Tags: slang Synonyms: fat person
    Sense id: en-five-by-five-en-noun-PDcLRxdP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: five by five
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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