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fives

/fahyvz/US // faɪvz //UK // (faɪvz) //

五,五人,五个,五岁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British.

    • : a game resembling handball, played on a court having a front wall and two side walls.

Examples

  • When an armored truck convoy stops, the patrol leader will give the command “fives and twenty-fives” over the radio.

  • Frat Bro Cousin Prepare for lots of high-fives with this one.

  • This does not seem like a very natural packaging size; things usually come in fives and tens.

  • Just don't expect high fives at your neighborhood barbecue for defending poor, misunderstood multinational corporations.

  • But more than once I was paid for my services with a handful of crinkled ones and fives.

  • He was starting to make his conquest backed by one twenty, three fives, four twos, and ninety cents in silver.

  • The midribs are removed while green, and the leaves are rolled into bundles of convenient size, say by fives.

  • Only in field artillery, in the now famous "seventy-fives," could France claim any advantage.

  • Bugles sang cheerily; mules, linked in fives, were being zigzagged frowardly down to water.

  • He produced a wallet, from which he drew out five one-hundred-dollar bills and three fives.