fives
See also: Fives
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faɪvz/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪvz
Noun
fives
- plural of five
Noun
fives (uncountable)
- (chiefly Britain) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
Noun
fives pl (plural only)
- (poker slang) A pair of fives.
- (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
- Coordinate terms: ones, twos, threes, fours
- (finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.
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Translations
plural of 'five'
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pair of fives
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See also
- 5's
- 5s
- bunch of fives