Posted August 18, 2007. My wife is telling me that I now occasionally yell in my sleep. Once I was yelling OW! repeatedly, and once she couldn't make out what I was saying. After waking up I do not remember any dreams that it could be related to.
For other uses, see Gimme (disambiguation). In golf, a gimme is a shot that the other players agree can count automatically without being played. When a player has only a very short putt left to play, other players may grant a gimme (i.e., one stroke is counted), but the ball is not played. A gimme is a time-saving convention under the tacit assumption that the putt would not have been missed, e.g., when the ball is only a few inches from the hole.
Regardless of which high-five origin story is more accurate, there is little question of its roots. The high five evolved from its sister-in-slappage, the low five. The gesture, also known as âslapping skin,â was made popular in the jazz age by the likes of Al Jolson, Cab Calloway and the Andrews Sisters. GIMME FIVE