Crossword-Solution: FIVES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fives | 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. |
| Fives | n. | A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with FIVES (5)
Here, about six o’clock, the young men of the village gathered, as was their custom, for a game of fives.
They didn’t want to, but Miss Hope got one of father’s fives-bats and said she’d give them a number nine spanking if they didn’t, so they’ve gone to do it.” A loud, angry screaming from the direction of the lawn drew Mrs.
Boys lingered talking to one another, and presently some who had hurried to change came out to play fives; others straggled out in twos and threes and went out of the gateway, Philip knew they were going up to the cricket ground; others again went into the precincts to bat at the nets.
Now those that escaped went some of them home; and the rest by fives, nines, and seventeens, like wanderers, went straggling up and down the country, where they upon the barbarous people showed and exercised many of their Diabolonian actions: nor did these people rise up in arms against them, but suffered themselves to be enslaved by them.
The two girls were fascinated by the large roll of bills--fives, tens, twenties--which Fatty took from his trousers pocket.
Quotes with FIVES (3)
Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless... make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.
Jiu Jitsu forges friendships in a way I’ve never known. Being involved in an art as intimate as this, where bodily connection is a must, the common cultural boundaries of personal space are broken. You will never see more hugs, high fives, and physical expressions of love than on the mats. Ultimately, this proves to be one of the most fulfilling aspects of our pursuit of mastery. Along the way, we learn to love others as we love ourselves.
It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).