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high five
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high five

noun

Definition of HIGH FIVE

: a slapping of upraised right hands by two people (as in celebration)
— high–five verb
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Examples of HIGH FIVE

  1. People began cheering and giving each other high fives.

First Known Use of HIGH FIVE

1980

Rhymes with HIGH FIVE

alive, archive, Argive, arrive, back dive, beehive, connive, contrive, crash-dive, deprive, derive, disk drive, endive, hard drive, line drive, nosedive, ogive, revive, self-drive, skin-dive, skydive, survive, swan dive, take five, test-drive

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