fives

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of five
2. (British, uncountable)A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.

   “Liza on her first visit to the school had greatly admired everything about it from the fives courts and the chapel to the plaster casts in the corridors and the photographs of cathedrals in the classrooms.”

3. (plural, plural-only, slang)A pair of fives.
4. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang)The cells located on the fourth floor.
5. (archaic, plural, plural-only)Shares at a rate of five percent.

   “Look what the funds were on the 1st of March—what the French fives were when I bought for the count. And what they're at now.”

name

1. A suburb of Lille, Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.