Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An improper form of
vives . - A kind of play with a ball, originally called
hand-tennis : so named, it is said, because usually played with five on each side, or because three fives or 15 are counted to the game, or because the ball is struck with the hand or five fingers. - The five fingers; the hand; the fist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three
fives , orfifteen , are counted to the game. - noun plural a place for playing fives.
- noun A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
five . - noun chiefly UK a
ball game , somewhat liketennis , played against awall - noun poker slang A pair of
fives .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
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Examples
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The standard dome starts out as a twenty-side polygon, whose points come together in "fives" not sixes.
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I got a lot of thumbs-up and high-fives from the teachers and some of the moms at school this morning.
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I got a lot of thumbs-up and high-fives from the teachers and some of the moms at school this morning.
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(Everything must come in fives these days.) "Now I have to leave you," she told me as she disappeared around the doorframe.
Archive 2007-01-01 kittenpie 2007
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(Everything must come in fives these days.) "Now I have to leave you," she told me as she disappeared around the doorframe.
Sweet When Low Down kittenpie 2007
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They queried up in fives and sixes, on all sides, striking simultaneously, hammering us from every direction.
POW JOURNAL OF 2LT. JOHN B. CIHON GOTHA MISSION - FEB. 24, 1944 1944
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-- 14 straight seasons of 10 or more wins (1987-2000) -- Florida State played for the national title fives times between 1993-2000
unknown title 2009
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We may observe in Homer, that Proteus counts his sea-calves by fives and fives, that is, by his fingers.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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Among other "fives" are the five surefire ways "to crack the bestseller list."
The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The object of the game is to make as many "fives" and "threes" as are possible; for instance, a player should always make the domino show fifteen if he can, as three divides into fifteen five times, and five divides into fifteen three times, and he would thus score 8 (three and five).
My Book of Indoor Games Clarence Squareman
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