forties
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- n the time of life between 40 and 50
- n the decade from 1940 to 1949
- n the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four
- Willie Mays stumbling in his forties with the Mets, Muhammad Ali falling to Leon Spinks and doing roach motel commercials in the late-seventies, Joe Namath tossing interceptions .
- He's in his forties, broad-shouldered with close-cropped hair.
- Of all the dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties.