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Definition of "fives" []

  • Plural form of five. (noun)
  • A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall (noun)
  • A pair of fives. (noun)

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Use "fives" in a sentence
  • "The standard dome starts out as a twenty-side polygon, whose points come together in "fives" not sixes."
  • "I got a lot of thumbs-up and high-fives from the teachers and some of the moms at school this morning."
  • "(Everything must come in fives these days.) "Now I have to leave you," she told me as she disappeared around the doorframe."