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fivesies

fivesies noun: a call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.

Noun

fivesies (plural fivesies)

  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.
    • She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round.1999, Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Crossing boundaries, page 239

Forms of fivesies

pluralfivesies

Origin of fivesies

From five + -sies.

Questions about fivesies

What does fivesies mean?
Fivesies means a call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.
What part of speech is fivesies?
Fivesies is a noun.
What is the plural of fivesies?
The plural of fivesies is fivesies.

Words near fivesies in the dictionary

  1. fivequels
  2. fiver
  3. fivers
  4. fives
  5. fivescore
  6. fivesies
  7. fivesome
  8. fivesomes
  9. fivespot
  10. fivespots
  11. fivestones

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