FIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiver mean? 

• FIVER (noun)
  The noun FIVER has 1 sense:

1. a United States bill worth 5 dollars

  Familiarity information: FIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United States bill worth 5 dollars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

five-spot; five dollar bill; fiver

Hypernyms ("fiver" is a kind of...):

bank bill; bank note; banker's bill; banknote; bill; Federal Reserve note; government note; greenback; note (a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fiver"):

nickel; nickel note (five dollars worth of a drug)

 Context examples 

That's where the Transcontinental fiver went—'The Ring of Bells' went into the poundman's pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As to money, well, so far as a fiver or even a tenner goes you can always look to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘I’ll lay you a fiver,’ said I, ‘that when he has my offer you’ll never so much as hear from him again.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, then, you’ve lost your fiver, for it’s town bred,” snapped the salesman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw somethin’ was in the wind, and it wasn’t very ’ard to guess what it was—especially when Red Ike was ready to put up a fiver that Jim ’Arrison would never fight at all.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember that fiver you gave me the time I didn't have carfare?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“If you won’t tell us the bet is off, that is all. But I’m always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)