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n. - A set of five similar things considered as a unit; One of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy; The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.

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  • Each thinks that his or her quintuplet is the pick of the litter.
  • There's a reward for his death by the Empty Seven, quintuplet cyborg monks.
  • Not in the Colbert Report way, but in that Addison wants them to be on the quintuplet case.
  • I heard that Busey is actually the recorded father of quintuplet boys, but he hugged them all so powerfully at their birth that they died.
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