Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US gambling) the point of five in craps dice.

1898		‘The Game of Craps’ in Current Lit. XIII:6 558/2: Nearly every point on the dice is named. [...] five is called ‘Phoebe’ or ‘fever’.
1908		W.G. Davenport Butte and Montana beneath the X-Ray 65: ‘Come on Big Dick.’ ‘Little Phoebe from the South.’ [HDAS].
1911		Howitzer 177: Big Dick from Boston—eighty miles from home—Phoebe—Little Joe—four’s my point...! [HDAS].
1919		Crowe & Chase Pat Crowe, Aviator 87: You probably recall the thrilling adventures of Snake Eyes, Little Joe, Phoebe Snow, Ada from Decatur, Richard the Great, and Box Cars.
1920		C. Sandburg ‘Crapshooters’ in Smoke and Steel 34: The myths are Phoebe, Little Joe, Big Dick. / Hope runs high with a: Huh, seven—huh, come seven.
1930		Nottingham Eve. Post 15 Oct. 7/3: They turned up with unusual frequency on the numbers 2 and five, known to dicing artists as ‘snake eys’ and ‘Little Phoebe’, both points of considerable ill-omen.
1937		Wash. Post 3 Oct. B8/6: Five is either ‘Fever’ or ‘Phoebe,’ and an eight is an ‘Eighter from Decatur.’.
1949		N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 11: There it was, Little Joe or Phoebe, Big Dick or Eighter from Decatur, double trey the hard way.
1965		J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 6: Joe, of course, is the lowest point on the dice. Above it are Phoebe Five (a hard gal to know), Easy Six (three combinations) [etc.].
2002		‘The Lang. of Craps’ CasinoTips.org 🌐 FIVE: ‘After five, the field’s alive,’ ‘thirty-two juice roll’ (OJ’s jersey number), ‘little Phoebe,’ ‘fiver, fiver, racetrack driver,’ ‘we got the fever.’.
2004		‘Animated Dominoes, Dice’ at Old and Sold 🌐 Some of the best-known nicknames in dice are: [...] Phoebe, Little Phoebe, Fee-Bee [...] total of five.

2. see Feeb n.