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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