fivern.
/ˈfʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪvər/ colloquial.
1. A five-pound note. In U.S. a five-dollar note.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > five-pound note
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1843 Spirit of Times 7 Jan. 536/2 If any man heard more than a double X bet, he was in a livelier crowd than we met with. But in ‘fivers’ something was done.
1853 G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand i Spooner..loses a five-pound note, or, as he calls it, a fiver.
1894 A. Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes 62 I'll lay you a fiver..that..you will never..hear from him again.
1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune xxiv. 315 Renny won a fiver off me.
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2. Anything that counts as five (as a hit for five at cricket).
3. Thieves' slang. A fifth (term of imprisonment).
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1872 Daily News 27 Apr. 3/4 They announced that they were in for a ‘fiver’ or a ‘sixer’, according to the number of their visits to a particular gaol.
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