Usually means: Honest and without any cheating.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word fair and square:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fair and square: Merriam-Webster
  2. fair and square: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fair and square: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fair-and-square: Vocabulary.com
  5. fair-and-square: Wordnik
  6. fair and square: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fair and square: Wiktionary
  8. Fair and square, fair-and-square, fair and square: Dictionary.com
  9. fair-and-square: Rhymezone
  10. Fair and Square: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. fair-and-square, fair and square: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fair-and-square: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Fair And Square: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  14. fair-and-square, fair and square: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fair and square: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fair and square: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fair and square)

▸ adverb:  Totally fairly and undoubtedly.
▸ adverb:  Within the applicable rules.
▸ adverb:  In all fairness; equitably.
▸ adjective:  Unquestionably fair.

Similar:
fair, just, fairly and squarely, fairly, legitimately, egally, fairhandedly, rightly so, fair-handedly, to be fair, more...

Opposite:
unfair, unjust, dishonest, crooked, underhanded

Adjectives:
true, ok, straight forward, fair, even-handed, right, honest, straightish, forthright, earnest

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Similar:
fair, just, fairly and squarely, fairly, legitimately, egally, fairhandedly, rightly so, fair-handedly, to be fair, more...

Opposite:
unfair, unjust, dishonest, crooked, underhanded

Adjectives:
true, ok, straight forward, fair, even-handed, right, honest, straightish, forthright, earnest



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