Crossword clues for fives
fives
- V V V
- Their backs feature the Lincoln Memorial
- Roughly seven per cent of all U.S. paper currency
- Pocket pair nicknamed "speed limit" in Texas hold'em
- Knicks and Nets
- Jazz and Cavs
- High-___ (hand-slapping greetings)
- GPA maximums, maybe
- Go Fish request, perhaps
- Fist, bunch of ...
- Exchange for a ten
- Certain middle irons
- Bills picturing Lincoln
- Basketball teams
- "High" slaps
- Game is on TV — fee to be arranged
- Hands up for success in school sport
- High numbers?
- (British) a game resembling handball
- Played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
- Heat and Jazz
- Lincoln bills
- 0500 and 1700
- Nets and Nuggets
- Court game
- Squash relative
- Hob's into following suit at first in game
- Till bills
- Low cards
- Change for a twenty
- Change for a ten
- Some till fill
- They would've been next in this puzzle's theme
- Cash register stack
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.
Fives \Fives\, n. [See Vives.]
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of five English)Category:English plurals 2 (context chiefly British English) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall 3 (context poker slang English) A pair of five#Noun.
WordNet
n. a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
Wikipedia
Fives is an English sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using a gloved or bare hand as though it were a racquet, similarly to hand-pelota.
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.