subs. (colloquial).—Anything that counts as five; specifically a five-pound note. Cf., FINN.

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  1853.  WHYTE-MELVILLE, Digby Grand, ch. i. Spooner … loses a five-pound note, or, as he calls it, a FIVER, to my antagonist.

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  1864.  YATES, Broken to Harness, ch. xxv. Wouldn’t send me a FIVER to save me from jail.

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  1871.  Daily News, 26 Dec. ‘Workhouse Xmas Depravity.’ Why, there’s Jemima Ann … has … been bleeding me of a FIVER to send to some Christmas Dinner Fund for juvenile mudlarks.

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  1872.  Fun, Sept.

        I lent a FIVER unto a friend—
He managed somehow that to spend.

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  1890.  Tit-Bits, 8 Feb., p. 273, col. 2. Lend me a FIVER, will you, Gus?

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