high-five

1. 1.

   a gesture of greeting or elation; one person's upraised palm slaps the upraised palm of another person

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Questions about high-five

What does high-five mean?

high-five means "a gesture of greeting or elation; one person's upraised palm slaps the upraised palm of another person".

How many syllables are in high-five?

high-five has 2 syllables: high--five. The stress falls on "high-".

Is high-five a common word?

high-five is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.