high fiving
high fiving is the present participle and gerund of high five.
Meaning of high five
Verb
high five (third-person singular simple present high fives, present participle high fiving, simple past and past participle high fived)
- To slap high fives.
- Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway.2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times
Questions about high fiving
- What is high fiving the present participle and gerund of?
- High fiving is the present participle and gerund of high five.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: high fiving (page history and authors); high five (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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