Word.ws English Dictionary

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)

  1. (transitive) 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

See all 4 meanings of high five

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.

Words near high fiving in the dictionary

  1. high fidelity
  2. high finance
  3. high five
  4. high fived
  5. high fives
  6. high fiving
  7. high flier
  8. high fliers
  9. high flyer
  10. high flyers
  11. high Fowler's

Source and license

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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “high fiving.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/high_fiving. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.