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five noun- a slap of the hand in greeting US, 1959
- They exchange fives and remain in the window, checking out the mid-afternoon scene. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 111, 1972
- five pounds UK
- “Ya got five?” she asked. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 214, 2001
- an amphetamine tablet US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, August 1993
- a five-year prison sentence UK
- — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- Chanel No. 5 perfume US
- I don’t care if the world buys Opium until it comes to an end; I’m gonna always have me some 5. — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, p. 188, 1994
▶ come and take five to make a short visit GRENADA, 1976 Recorded by Richard Allsopp.▶ get your five to attain the highest rank in the Canadian civil service CANADA- And he’d “got his five,” as they said, the top civil service pay scale EX-5. He had reason to feel pleased with himself. — Robert MacNeil, The Voyage, p. 2, 1995
▶ give five to shake hands or to slap hands in a greeting US, 1935- “Hyuh, Larry, give me five.” Larry refuses the outstretched hand. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 60, 1970
- Murphy leaned forward to give his partner five. “Right on, brother! Right on!” — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, pp. 98–99, 1977
- I had it because a week later Chillie gave me five [a stylized hand slap] and the coke was in his hand. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 78, 1989
- No jive, gimme five. — Editors of Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 202, 1997
▶ take five to take a short break US, 1929- Following any personal or professional ordeal while on duty at the Clinic, it was the practice of the young nurses to “take five,” as they expressed it, in Nurses Rest rooms. — Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, p. 61, 1958
- [T]hey have to rest after every joke. Take five. Have a cuppa. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 33, 1997
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