Usually means: Hand game involving slapping palms.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fives: Merriam-Webster
  2. fives: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fives: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fives: Vocabulary.com
  5. Five's, Fives, five's, fives: Wordnik
  6. fives: Wiktionary
  7. fives: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fives: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Fives, fives: Dictionary.com
  10. Fives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Fives: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. fives: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. fives: Rhymezone
  14. Fives: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fives: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Fives: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. fives: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fives: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. fives: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. fives: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. fives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FIVES: Acronym Finder
  2. fives: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fives: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fives: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Five's: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Fives: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fives)

▸ noun:  (chiefly British) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
▸ noun:  (poker slang) A pair of fives.
▸ noun:  (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.
▸ noun:  (finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.
▸ noun:  A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.

Similar:
pentad, fivesome, quintuplet, quint, quintet, cardinal, v, cinque, fin, phoebe, more...

Opposite:
tens, twenties, thirties

Phrases:
high fives, under fives, fives court, Eton Fives, forty fives, more...

Adjectives:
high, under, seventy, few, par, over, french, twenty, forty, top, sixty



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Similar:
pentad, fivesome, quintuplet, quint, quintet, cardinal, v, cinque, fin, phoebe, more...

Opposite:
tens, twenties, thirties

Phrases:
high fives, under fives, fives court, Eton Fives, forty fives, rugby fives, bunch of fives, a bunch of fives, all fives, nine to fives, two fives in vegas, more...

Adjectives:
high, under, seventy, few, par, over, french, twenty, forty, top, sixty



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