fives

fives

See also: Fives

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faɪvz/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪvz

Noun

fives

  1. plural of five

Noun

fives (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly British) A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
    • 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.4, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 94:
      Liza on her first visit to the school had greatly admired everything about it from the fives courts and the chapel to the plaster casts in the corridors and the photographs of cathedrals in the classrooms.

Noun

fives pl (plural only)

  1. (poker slang) A pair of fives.
  2. (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
    Coordinate terms: ones, twos, threes, fours
  3. (finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.

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