plural of five

(chiefly Britain) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall. / (poker slang) A pair of fives. / (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.

simple past tense and past participle of five

present participle of five

Synonym of wuxing

(military, slang) On an aircraft carrier, the state where fighters and crew are on guard, standing by in the aircraft, strapped in and ready to be launched in five minutes or less.

(rugby) The five forwards who form the front row and the second row in the scrum. / (comedy) A five-minute set of jokes performed by a stand-up comedian, usually made up of only their best material.

The five items of faith worn by Khalsa Sikhs: kaccha, kara, kirpan, kanga and kesh.

(singular only, mathematics) A particular lemma that claims the existence of a particular isomorphism in a commutative diagram given certain other homomorphisms in the diagram.

(archaic) Twenty-five.