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took five

took five is the simple past of take five.

Meaning of take five

Verb

take five (third-person singular simple present takes five, present participle taking five, simple past took five, past participle taken five)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) To take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity.
    • Hey, stop fighting! Take five, people!

Questions about took five

What is took five the simple past of?
Took five is the simple past of take five.

Words near took five in the dictionary

  1. took down a peg
  2. took easy
  3. took effect
  4. took exception
  5. took fire
  6. took five
  7. took flight
  8. took for
  9. took for a drive
  10. took for a ride
  11. took for a spin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took five (page history and authors); take 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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