fives

[ fahyvz ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. a game resembling handball, played on a court having a front wall and two side walls.

fives

/ faɪvz /

noun

1. functioning as singular a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the hands

Word History and Origins

Origin of fives¹

First recorded in 1630–40; five + -s ³

Example Sentences

When an armored truck convoy stops, the patrol leader will give the command “fives and twenty-fives” over the radio.

From The Daily Beast

Frat Bro Cousin Prepare for lots of high-fives with this one.

From The Daily Beast

This does not seem like a very natural packaging size; things usually come in fives and tens.

From The Daily Beast

Just don't expect high fives at your neighborhood barbecue for defending poor, misunderstood multinational corporations.

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But more than once I was paid for my services with a handful of crinkled ones and fives.

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He was starting to make his conquest backed by one twenty, three fives, four twos, and ninety cents in silver.

From Project Gutenberg

The midribs are removed while green, and the leaves are rolled into bundles of convenient size, say by fives.

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Only in field artillery, in the now famous "seventy-fives," could France claim any advantage.

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Bugles sang cheerily; mules, linked in fives, were being zigzagged frowardly down to water.

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He produced a wallet, from which he drew out five one-hundred-dollar bills and three fives.

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