English edit

Etymology edit

five +‎ -sies

Noun edit

fivesies (plural fivesies)

  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.
    • 1999, Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Crossing boundaries, page 239:
      She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round.