Even-steven Definition

ēvən-stēvən
adjective
Webster's New World
Having nothing due or owed on either side.
An even-steven transaction.
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Having a tied score, as in a game.
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(idiomatic) Equal; fair.

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Exactly even, equal.

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adverb

(idiomatic) Equally; fairly.

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Evenly divided.
He made two piles of clothes even steven and let me pick which one I wanted.
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noun
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Origin of Even-steven

  • Possibly reduplicating rhyme from even (“equal"). See also steven (“money") (slang)

    From Wiktionary

  • From even (“equal”) + steven (“voice or say in a matter, constitution”)

    From Wiktionary

  • even the name Steven used as rhyming slang

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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