fives

nounnounnounattested in dialogue

//faɪvz//

A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.

noun

1
Also a form of fiveplural of five

noun

1
A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
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

1
slangA pair of fives.
2
slangThe cells located on the fourth floor.
3
archaicShares at a rate of five percent.
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.

five-o · The police.fiver · A banknote with a value of five units of currency.Fiver · A Zaidi Shi'a Muslim.

fives · A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.

Fives · A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.fix · To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.Fix · A surname.

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