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English
Etymology
From five + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (“supporter”).
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Noun
fiver (plural fivers)
- (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
Do you have a fiver I could borrow? I can pay you back tomorrow.
1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 15:[…] 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.
- (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
I bought the chocolates; they were only a fiver.
- (colloquial) A clenched fist.
- Synonym: bunch of fives
- A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.
- (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
- (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).
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