high five

English

People performing a high five.

Alternative forms

• high-five

Noun

high five (countable and uncountable, plural high fives)

1. A gesture of celebration or victory in which two people slap their hands together at shoulder height or higher.
2. (card games, uncountable) The game of cinch.

Coordinate terms

• fist bump
• high ten
• low five
• too slow

Related terms

• gimme five
• low five
• slap someone five

Translations

gesture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 举手击掌

• Finnish: yläviitonen; yläfemma, ylävitonen
• Hebrew: כִּיף (he) m (kif)
• Hungarian: pacsi (hu)
• Italian: batti cinque m
• Japanese: ハイタッチ (ja) (hai tatchi)
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• Macedonian: да пукне n (da pukne)
• Polish: piątka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cumprimentando (pt)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: high five (sv) c
• Welsh: pawen lawen

Verb

1. To slap high fives.

Translations

to slap high five

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tehdä yläviitonen
• Italian: battere il cinque
• Macedonian: да пу́кне n (da púkne)
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• Polish: przybić piątkę
• Russian: дать пять (datʹ pjatʹ)
• Somali: ku dhac, ku dac
• Spanish: chocar los cinco
• Swedish: highfivea