'High five' definitions:
Definition of 'High five'
From: GCIDE
- High five \High five\
- 1. See Cinch (the game). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. pl. a celebratory or mutually congratulatory gesture between two persons performed by each slapping the other's raised right hand. Also used as a verb. [PJC]
Definition of 'high five'
From: GCIDE
- Cinch \Cinch\, n. [Cf. cinch a girth, a tight grip, as v., to get a sure hold upon; perh. so named from the tactics used in the game; also cf. Sp. cinco five (the five spots of the color of the trump being important cards).] A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]