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  • noun Plural form of fifteen.

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Examples

  • "fifteens" style of rugby, as why the sport has a chance to infiltrate the community beyond a niche market.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • I won gold at the under fourteens, under fifteens … won silver in the Commonwealth Games when I was nineteen.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • Platoons of tusked, six-armed guardsmen from high Lumbrook in barbed helmets passed each other and slapped each other high fifteens.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Platoons of tusked, six-armed guardsmen from high Lumbrook in barbed helmets passed each other and slapped each other high fifteens.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Platoons of tusked, six-armed guardsmen from high Lumbrook in barbed helmets passed each other and slapped each other high fifteens.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Platoons of tusked, six-armed guardsmen from high Lumbrook in barbed helmets passed each other and slapped each other high fifteens.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • With free weights, that would mean going from the five-pound dumbbells which should be used only for a few exercises, such as the rear deltoid fly, as they are too light for everything else to the eights, then tens, twelves, fifteens, and so on.

    Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007

  • With free weights, that would mean going from the five-pound dumbbells which should be used only for a few exercises, such as the rear deltoid fly, as they are too light for everything else to the eights, then tens, twelves, fifteens, and so on.

    Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007

  • Say, which sold the towns in France; he that made us pay one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the pound, the last subsidy.

    The Second part of King Henry the Sixth 2004

  • Not losing means staying in every hand as long as possible, sitting on fifteens and sixteens and letting the dealer do all the busting.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

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