(US, Canada, informal) To take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity.
Hey, stop fighting! Take five, people!
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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