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fivesies en · NOUN

Etymology

From five + -sies.

Meanings

  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:

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