fiver
(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
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Born ~1843 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
@mrjamesob.bsky.social NO booze should be allowed at or in. airports,planes,houses of parliament. 10 or 11 quid a pint in london-crazy. i am 66,when i was a lad you could buy 10 pints of trophy bitter for a fiver. o…
Slipping the DJ a fiver to trick people in to dancing to your new song: priceless Or a fiver I guess #darkwave #gothmusic #gothmusician #alternativemusic #darkwavemusic
Or just Do Random Jobs on Mechanical Turk or fiver
bro our local tex mex place just sprung on us that tacos and frozen margs were a fiver. just spent the last of my money for the month but fucking worth ittttt
Had a fiver on Trossard first scorer
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(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
Do you have a fiver I could borrow? I can pay you back tomorrow.
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(colloquial) A clenched fist.
I bought the chocolates; they were only a fiver.
“@mrjamesob.bsky.social NO booze should be allowed at or in. airports,planes,houses of parliament. 10 or 11 quid a pint in london-crazy. i am 66,when i was a lad you could buy 10 pints of trophy bitter for a fiver. oh how times have changed.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Slipping the DJ a fiver to trick people in to dancing to your new song: priceless Or a fiver I guess #darkwave #gothmusic #gothmusician #alternativemusic #darkwavemusic”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Or just Do Random Jobs on Mechanical Turk or fiver”
— Bluesky· May 2026“bro our local tex mex place just sprung on us that tacos and frozen margs were a fiver. just spent the last of my money for the month but fucking worth ittttt”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Had a fiver on Trossard first scorer”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
"fiver" means the value in money that this represents. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"fiver" is informal English meaning the value in money that this represents. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "the value in money that this represents" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "fiver" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
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