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[ fahyvz ] / faɪvz /
noun (used with a singular verb)British.a game resembling handball, played on a court having a front wall and two side walls. Origin of fivesFirst recorded in 1630–40; five + -s3 Words nearby fivesFive Nations Championship, five o'clock shadow, fivepenny, fivepins, fiver, fives, five senses, five-speed, five-spice powder, five-spot, five-star Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fivesWhen an armored truck convoy stops, the patrol leader will give the command “fives and twenty-fives” over the radio. 'Fives and Twenty-Fives' Is Fiction Honed in a Combat Zone|Brian Castner|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST This does not seem like a very natural packaging size; things usually come in fives and tens. The Incredible Shrinking Sugar Bag|Megan McArdle|November 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST But more than once I was paid for my services with a handful of crinkled ones and fives. Priests Who Hired Me for Sex|Mike Jones|July 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST More than once I was paid for my services with a handful of crinkled ones and fives. Priests Who Hired Me for Sex|Mike Jones|July 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Suppose there are the leaves in pairs, or in threes, or in fives, each bundle or group growing out of a single point on the twig. Trees Every Child Should Know|Julia Ellen Rogers My fives cost me 122, and my threes 84: I had confidence, sir—the word explains every thing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848|Various You would not have a boy prefer whist to fives, nor tobacco to toffee, nor Tolstoï to Charles Lever. Essays in Little|Andrew Lang He hold t'ons and gallons; and I can not hold more as fives bottel!! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. 3, number 18|Various If he had had two fives, then, they say, perhaps he would have got in.
British Dictionary definitions for fives
noun(functioning as singular) a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the hands Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fivesquintuple, cinquefoil, pentangle, pentagram, lustrum, cinque, quinquennium, pentacle, quintette, quintuplet, pentagon, limerick, pentad, pentamerous, quinary, quinate, quinquennial, quincunx, quintuplicate |