fives Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
  2. noun the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
    quintet; quintuplet; quint; Little Phoebe; cinque; fivesome; 5; Phoebe; V; five; fin; pentad.
  3. noun a team that plays basketball
    basketball team; five.
  4. noun a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips
    five; five-spot.

WordNet

Fives noun plural
Definitions
  1. A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart.
Fives noun
Etymology
See Vives.
Definitions
  1. A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. Shak.

Webster 1913