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fair shakes

fair shakes is the plural of fair shake.

Meaning of fair shake

Noun

fair shake (plural fair shakes)

  1. (idiomatic) Reasonable, unbiased treatment; a fair deal.
    • Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, "We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake."1973 November 20, “Army Rejects Plea To Erase 2 Charges On Benedict Arnold”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 May 2017

Questions about fair shakes

What is fair shakes the plural of?
Fair shakes is the plural of fair shake.

Words near fair shakes in the dictionary

  1. fair penny
  2. fair play
  3. fair sex
  4. fair shake
  5. fair shake of the sauce bottle
  6. fair shakes
  7. fair share
  8. fair suck of the pineapple
  9. fair suck of the sauce bottle
  10. fair suck of the sauce stick
  11. fair suck of the sav

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