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单词 all fives
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all fivesn.

Brit. /ˌɔːl ˈfʌɪvz/, U.S. /ˌɔl ˈfaɪvz/, /ˌɑl ˈfaɪvz/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adj., five n.
Etymology: < all adj. + the plural of five n., after all fours n.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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