单词 | all fives |
释义 | all fivesn. 1. humorous. on all fives: on hands, knees (or feet), and another part of the body (later esp. the buttocks). Cf. on (also upon) all fours at all fours n. 1. In later use chiefly in the contexts of hiking, climbing, etc. ΚΠ 1793 Monthly Rev. Sept. 16 He thinks that..instead of going ‘on all fours,’ ‘we should stand on our heads too’: that is, on all fives. 1852 Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 9 409/1 He took a leap out of a window into the kitchen-garden, and..he came down nearly on all fives, for, besides resting on his hands and feet, his nose was within an inch of the ground. 1942 R. M. Lockley Shearwaters vi. 65 There he scrambles up the shelving sandstone on all fives. a1944 W. A. White Autobiogr. (1946) xxiv. 174 You go up 2,000 [feet] on all fours, creeping and climbing along crevices and cracks in almost perpendicular rocks. You come down on all fives. 2008 G. Latter Sc. Rock I. 39/2 The west side of the Pinnacle summit... Descend the same line on all fives! 2. Cards. A variation of all fours (all fours n. 3) in which the winner of a trick scores the face value of any trump cards it contains, as well as an additional five points if the trick contains the five of trumps.The winner of the game is the first player to score sixty-one points. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1838 Bell's Life in London 19 Aug. 2/3 We do not know the game of All Fives, but at the game of Spoiled Five you may trump or follow suit. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 11/2 The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage. 1882 Cassell's Bk. In-door Amusem. (ed. 2) 134 All Fives... Instead of nine or eleven points being played for, as in All Fours, sixty-one points constitute the game, the marking of which is generally done on a cribbage-board. The very first card played by the non-dealer is the trump card. 1979 D. Heidenstam et al. World Encycl. Sports & Games 96/2 With the exception of the scoring, all fives is just like seven up. 2004 N. Katz Everything Card Games Bk. x. 124 The objective of All Fives is for players to score points by winning tricks containing court cards. 3. Dominoes. A game in which points are scored only when the sum of the spots at the two ends is five or a multiple thereof; = muggins n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > dominoes > [noun] > forms of game rounce1845 tiddlywink1857 matador1865 all fives1868 muggins1868 Malakoff1870 all fours1872 sniff1917 1868 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 593 The Matadore Game..is a variation of All Fives. 1872 R. K. Philp Take my Advice x. 268/2 All Fives...The object of each is so to play out his stones that the dots at either end count five, or combinations of fives. 1912 Teachers College Rec. Nov. 25 Among the many games that can be played with dominoes, the ones called ‘All-Fives’ and ‘All-Threes’ are the most simple. 1970 Guardian 26 Aug. 16/4 Deadlock in another principal form of domino, all fives or muggins, is also decided on the lowest number of pips if neither hand can match. 2005 S. Spadaccini Big Bk. Rules 27 Muggins (aka All Fives) is also a scoring game for two or four players. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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