High five
A high five is a celebratory gesture made by two people, each raising one hand to slap the raised hand of the other - usually meant to communicate to spectators mutual self-satisfaction or to extend congratulations from one person to another. Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker are often credited with having participated in the first baseball high five in the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles in 1977, with Burke receiving credit for "inventing" the high five (in the context of sports) because he raised his hand first after Baker scored a run.
As a children's game, variations of high fives are enumerated by the rhyme, "up high, to the side, to the other side, down low, too slow!" When the "too slow" is recited, the hand is withdrawn causing the other person to miss the slap.
Microsoft's MSN Messenger chat program has implemented a "high-five" emoticon, available from version 6 and onwards. A high-five is sent by typing (h5) in the message box. In other text-based forms of online communication, sometimes "^5" (a common ASCII representation of "5") is used to express a high five.
"High Five" in recent times is also used as the verb meaning "to infect someone with the HIV virus.
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- National High Five Day is celebrated on the Third Thursday in April every year. The Fourth Annual National High Five Day takes place in 2005 on April 21st.
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