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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fifty/ˈfɪfti/

▶cardinal number (pl. fifties) the number equivalent to the product of five and ten; half of one hundred; 50. (Roman numeral: l or L)

– derivatives
fiftieth ordinal number,
fiftyfold adjective & adverb.

– origin OE fīftig (see five, -ty2).

'fifty' also found in these Oxford entries:

arcana - fifty-fifty - forty - half-century - head - jubilee - khamsin - odd - playing card - quinquagenarian - Quinquagesima - Shavuoth - sixty - something

Forum discussions with the word(s) "fifty" in the title:

"fifty cent arcade game" or "fifty cents arcade game"
an old grad sitting on a hot water bottle at the fifty-yard line
at a brisk fifty degrees
Come Down on the Fifty-Year Limit
dead silver eyes of forty or fifty flatheads
disappear "in" the next fifty years
Eat something fifty-fifty
Fifty
fifty cents is/are a lot of money
fifty cents of...
Fifty feet tall if it was an inch
fifty going on twenty-four
fifty mile rule
fifty years of age
fifty years of glory
Fifty-four percent of Asia is mountains as is 36 percent of North America.
fifty-yard line
Go fifty fifty.
He’d stashed fifty reds
I show it three times for a fifty-five count
It is fifty centimeters, or fifty centimeter?
Jake bet his friend fifty dollars
Let's make it fifty.
the factor fifty-five
to run a hundred fifty dollars down to the police station
twenty in a fifty
two hundred and fifty theirs came to
within a fifty-mile radius
year 1050: ten fifty?

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