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Answer for the clue "Court game ", 5 letters:
fives

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Word definitions for fives in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl. 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 court , a place for playing fives.

Usage examples of fives.

Besides, I immediately saw the application to the Law of Fives: 2 + 3 = 5 and Clark has 5 letters.

Simple: multiply it by five, in accordance with Weishaupt's funfwissenschaft, the science of fives, and you get 365, the days of the year.

And then the good old Law of Fives came into it, and we had the Fascisti and it was a five-way dogfight.

Since it has five words and fits the Law of Fives, it is especially significant.

The last two months of each season each have 14 days, which also fits the law of fives because 1+4 = 5.

Five kinky edges, to be exact, since he was still obsessed with the profound new understanding of the Law of Fives he had achieved the night he saw the shoggoth turn into a rabbit.

Weishaupt looked very closely, and, like Joe Malik, the harder be looked the more fives he found.

The Law of Fives would be kept secret, so that only Illuminati Primi would know about it and could predict events correctly, but the Joachimite theory would be revived and publicized to mislead others.

They had already formed fives in a sort of corridor between long beams, like horse stalls in a market, a sort of paddock for prisoners.

They lined up in a column, the ones in front strictly in fives, the others any old way.

The thing about Fives is that they have almost unlimited target acceptance.

But some of the bigger ships, a few Threes and almost all the Fives, are armored all over.

On the twelfth day, two Fives came in from Gateway, loaded with happy, eager prospectors bringing all the wrong equipment.

You've got armored Fives, and both accept this particular destination.

Sigfrid lets me hang there for a moment, and then he waves his hand again and the figure disappears, and instead we are suddenly looking at a picture of two Fives butted lander-to-lander in midspace, and beyond them is--is-- "Oh, my God, Sigfrid," I say.