Jimmy Bullard

I know how far a fiver can go in non-League, let alone 100,000! So it is a lot of money. That money can be spread across the country to grassroots football which is fantastic. It can help them with things like electricity bills, new kits, new footballs and lawnmowers.

Paul Young

I did part-time jobs until my apprenticeship as a milling machinist at Vauxhall when I was 16. I got £15 a week and I used to give my mum a fiver of that.

English Singer

John Higgins

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

Scottish Celebrity

Dwight Gayle

At Stansted I didn't get paid. There was the occasional... well an old man there who used to give me a fiver if I scored the winning goal!

Ian Brown

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

English Musician

The value of a 'fiver' depends on the country: £5 in the UK, €5 in the eurozone, etc.

Currency Specific

'Fiver' is casual language, more common in speech than writing, and used in informal settings.

Informal Term

While 'fiver' refers to both notes and coins, it's most often used for banknotes.

Physical Money

 disposable convenient lifestyle I'll tell you as a pain you can go to any supermarket and you can buy these camping chairs and everybody you know everybody sees them on the way in they think I'll just buy a couple of them two for a fiver and they put them down and then sometimes not everybody but quite a lot of people leave them behind you know

What Happens To The...

 and I never did hear from him again. No, I gave it up for adoption so it could have a decent life, and then they wouldn't let me back into the convent. No, my one sister Virginia gave me a fiver for the coach to Dublin, and that's how I ended up here.