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  • noun Plural form of fiver.

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Examples

  • Should stoope: and yet, his radicall fivers burst, 100

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • The school divided itself forthwith into two factions, calling themselves the "fivers" and

    Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Also known as 'fivers' for their belief that Zayd ibn Ali was the fifth and final leading-Imam of the Muslim community.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows AlHaqqNetwork 2010

  • "money is money;" and so long as the Federal Government forbears to apply the sponge to its obligations a pocket-book full of these little postage parallelograms is as valuable in degree as a bundle of the crispest "fivers" that Mr. Ferraby or Mr. Gattie ever signed, or as a portemonnaie overflowing with napoleons and gold eagles.

    Echoes of the Week 1863

  • URMs' pockets are full of old Polo mints, string, roll-up papers, fivers that went through the wash and ingenious-looking tools that double both as a compass and an implement to remove stones from horses' hooves, like the Silva field compass from £13.

    Deconstructing the Unreconstructed Male Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • Some high fivers celebrate the holiday by setting up a free lemonade stand along a heavily traveled route - say on a college campus.

    recommended stuff 2010

  • I want Prince Andrew, fivers tumbling out of his back pocket, tricked into attending on the promise that Westminster Abbey has a golf course.

    Victoria Coren: why I shall be up at dawn to watch the royal family in all its bizarre glory 2011

  • I trust wrapped up in cotton wool, rather than the uncomfortable-sounding GB souvenir fivers, to keep it warm.

    Media Maxine 2009

  • Perfect condition, my dear, said the railwayman, retired from the Somerset and Dorset line when they closed Green Park station, who pocketed my fivers.

    Britain's best views: Bath 2011

  • To help the spivs see better, as they extract fivers from our wallets?

    Watch Nick Clegg's lips? I'd rather not Victoria Coren 2010

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