fives
IPA: fˈaɪvz
noun
- (chiefly British) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
- (poker slang) A pair of fives.
- (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
- (finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.
- A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Examples of "fives" in Sentences
- Among other "fives" are the five surefire ways "to crack the bestseller list."
- I got a lot of thumbs-up and high-fives from the teachers and some of the moms at school this morning.
- The standard dome starts out as a twenty-side polygon, whose points come together in "fives" not sixes.
- We may observe in Homer, that Proteus counts his sea-calves by fives and fives, that is, by his fingers.
- They queried up in fives and sixes, on all sides, striking simultaneously, hammering us from every direction.
- (Everything must come in fives these days.) "Now I have to leave you," she told me as she disappeared around the doorframe.
- -- 14 straight seasons of 10 or more wins (1987-2000) -- Florida State played for the national title fives times between 1993-2000
- 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).
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