forty-fives

From the corner of the gym where the BIG men train, Through a cloud of chalk and the midst of pain Where the big iron rides high and threatens lives, Where the noise is made with big forty-fives, A deep voice bellowed as he wrapped his knees, A very big man with legs like trees.

YesButNoButYes: The Trouble With You Is? 2008

First week we were tacking forty-fives on twelve-inch flanges.

a neck dote. dudemanflab 2007

Now all she wanted to do was talk on the phone, listen to her forty-fives, and write secrets in her diary, which she kept under lock and key.

Semiprecious D. Anne Love 2006

Opal sorted through her forty-fives and pulled out her favorites.

Semiprecious D. Anne Love 2006

Lady, I can't see any bikes that aren't Gray forty-fives in the picture.

Sun of Suns 2006

He swigged it down, eyes darting around the room as though he expected Arturo to materialize in the living room and start blazing away with a pair of forty-fives.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

He swigged it down, eyes darting around the room as though he expected Arturo to materialize in the living room and start blazing away with a pair of forty-fives.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Later, when I was learning to become a musician, I would play 33 rpm records at 45 rpm and hear the bass parts revealed, rescued from the bowels of the arrangement an octave higher, and the fast sections of the upper octaves on forty-fives so that they could be learned at a slower speed.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

He's threatening us with everything but the death penalty for stealing his crummy forty-fives, but we are so cool.

Four Blind Mice Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

Beryl laughs out loud, and for just a moment, her face is wide open, a window to who she was as a kid, all red hair and freckles, root beer Popsicles and spinning Beatles forty-fives on her monaural record player.

BAD GIRL CREEK Jo-Ann Mapson 2001