forty-five

1. Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.

   Synonyms: 45, XLV

plural forty-fives

1. engineeringA .45-caliber firearm.

   The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.

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   The phoenix he helped create Out of control boy without a dad Shot the gun that startled my life While I drove him with a forty-five

   1998, “Soil”, in Serj Tankian (lyrics), Daron Malakian (music), System of a Down, performed by System of a Down, Track 7

alternative '45

1. historicalThe Jacobite rising of 1745.

   In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.

   2001, Arthur L. Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment, Harper Perennial, published 2006, page 142

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   Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.

   1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 158

   Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].

   2012, Andrew Lang, A Short History of Scotland