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Example sentences from the Web for evensWashington evens it up by shooting Wahlberg in the leg, then throws an arm around him as they set off together. Hollywood, Shootings, and ‘2 Guns’: When Is Stylized Violence Obscene?|Michael Daly|July 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST I've played fast and loose with you, Madge, and I fancy your playing fast and loose only evens things up. Up till now, the betting called after each round had come to ‘ten to one on Heenan’; it fell at once to evens. Tracks of a Rolling Stone|Henry J. Coke Gus said with infinite slyness: "Look here, I'll bet you evens Biffen's don't pull off the final." Acton's Feud|Frederick Swainson
The run on the odds gave up, and I went in and won twice running on the evens. Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862|Various So far, the betting as to whether de la Cloche and the Naples pretender were the same man or not is at evens. The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories|Andrew Lang
adjective, adverb(of a bet) winning the same as the amount staked if successful (of a runner) offered at such odds Words nearby evensEvenki, even-minded, even money, even out, even permutation, evens, even so, evensong, even-steven, event, even-tempered Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to evensalike, indeed, much, match, square, constant, smooth, direct, right, flush, balanced, proportional, matching, plumb, same, stable, plane, horizontal, parallel, level |