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What is the full form of ^5?

Full form of ^5: Here, we are going to learn about the ^5, ^5 – which is an abbreviation of High Five! in Email jargon, etc. By Anushree Goswami Last updated : March 31, 2024

^5: High Five!

^5 is an abbreviation of "High Five".

It is an expression, which is commonly used in messaging or chatting on social media networking sites like Facebook, Yahoo Messenger, and Gmail, etc. It is used to indicate a circumstance on the social media online chat, when during a conversation a person wants to express his emotions in a form of gesture such that he finds something funny or exciting or something relatable to another person. So, normally it shows that either he or she on the social media platform regard as likely to perform the conversation that shows that a person wants to express his emotions in a different way when he gets excited or laughs.

Example of High Five! (^5) in Online Conversation

1.	Person1: Hey, have you completed the assignment yet?
2.	Person2: No bro, not yet.
3.	Person1: ^5, neither I did.
4.	Person2: HAHA, ^5 bro.

Example 2

    1.	Person1: Hey, do you like mangoes.
    2.	Person2: Like, I love mangoes, summer is my favourite only because of them.
    3.	Person1: ^5, I too love mangoes a lot.
    4.	Person2: ^5.

This kind of circumstance normally arises in conversations of social media online chatting or messaging. Now, these days, the demands of acronyms are very high on social media online chatting or messaging, so the users usually use ^5 as a replacement for High Five!.

It is commonly used in verbal talks but is also quite recognizable in the chatting and messaging platform. It is a kind of expression for a person raising his hand and touching it to another person's hand. So, sometimes instead of using ^5, people also use the hand emoji showing the high five gesture, which is more common and easily understood by all. ^5 due to its special character is used in not much amount but can be recognized easily by many.

While this slang is very common in gaming and chatting platform, still many are unaware of this slang.

High Five! (^5) in Corporate Industry

In the corporate industry too, these slangs are common and used in a very large manner. The industry itself likes those employees who are smart enough and stay updated with such digital languages which are familiar, easy and are good at time management.

So, in future whenever you want to express your emotions in a form of gesture to laugh or show your excitement or to show the connection in between you and the other person, you can use ^5 or a hand emoji instead of High Five! which is quite long and takes time.

Thanks for reading.