five-nine
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[edit]Noun
[edit]five-nine (plural five-nines)
- (historical) A 5.9-inch artillery shell of the kind used by Germany in World War I.
- 1917, Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est:
- All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.