Meaning

(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
2. (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
3. (colloquial) A clenched fist.
4. A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
5. (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
6. (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).

Example Sentences

Do you have a fiver I could borrow? I can pay you back tomorrow.

Charming man that—sort I abhor. Makes you feel it must lead up to borrowing a fiver every minute.

[…]a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead.

I bought the chocolates; they were only a fiver.

‘When they get there they will have cost me a fiver a beast in transport and fees.’

Word Forms

• fivers

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