two n.
1. two pennyworth (of spirits).
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sportsman (London) ‘Notes on News’ 1 Apr. 4/1: [M]utes, looking melancholy at twos of gin cold or rum hot. | |
| Three Men in a Boat 78: I wonder now [...] if they would put up signs over the public-houses that he had patronised: ‘Harris had a glass of bitter in this house;’ ‘Harris had two of Scotch cold here in the summer of ‘88’. | |
| ‘P.C. Green’ 🎵 I often see a ballet girl, her name is Mary Peck, / Loaded up with two’s of gin, she’s getting such a wreck. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight 228: You may be provided with a one, a two, or a three. | |
| None But the Lonely Heart 99: I’ll take a Two, if you’ve got one. |
2. (UK Und.) a two-year sentence.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Mr. Jackson 97: He staked my old woman when I was doin’ two in stir. | |
| They Drive by Night 24: If a bogey lamped him he’d do him in two two’s. If you crossed the road too often they was bound to say you were loitering with intent to commit a felony. | |
| Inside 17: I’ve done a four, two threes, and a two. |
3. (UK black) an unattractive person, i.e. one who ’scores’ 2/10.
 | hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 10 Jan. 🌐 2 - an ugly person, a 2/10. |
In phrases
to know something much better.
| ‘Blogadoon’ 7 Dec. 🌐 You see: they think I’m stupid. They think I’m going to leap out of bed to investigate and thereby reveal that I’ve been here all along. Ha! Well I know two of that – and so I wait, alert for the sinister hiss of escaping gases or a flicker of flame from the hallway. |
(UK black) tense, excited.
| ‘Xmas Eve’ 🎵 The trap phone jump two, three, and I'm on two fours like Christmas Eve. |
In compounds
(N.Z. prison) an English person.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 195/1: two and from n. an English person. |
(US Und.) very cheap whisky, as manufactured during Prohibition.
| et al. DAUL 230/1: Two-and-over. (A prohibition era term, still used in the illegal alcohol racket) Rot-gut whiskey; green liquor. |
(US drugs) two $5 vials or bags of crack cocaine for $9.
| ONDCP Street Terms 22: Two for Nine — Two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9. |
(US short order) a plate of oyster stew.
| N.Y. Dispatch 1 Aug. 7/6: As I sat down, a man next to my table ordered an oyster stew. The waiter immediately sang out: ‘Two in a bowl.’. |
(US) a small penis or its possessor.
| Donnybrook [ebook] ‘Hey, two-inches-a-love, quit staring at her tits’. | |
| Love Triangle [ebook] Here comes two inches of love joy, she thought. It was disappointing to the point of being painful to have become so aroused and wet. |
(US drugs) cocaine and heroin injected together.
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 206: ’Cause, Jack, I want a shot of two-in-one [cocaine and morphine]. | |
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 149: For God’s sake, fellas, don’t forget the gun [hypodermic syringe], / ’cause, man, I want some two in one [cocaine and heroin]. |
(US short order) two fried eggs.
| Atlanta Constitution 17 July 5/4: If one sat down to the table and ordered chops and eggs the order went to the cook as: ‘A stack of reds and two in the air.’. |
(orig. US short order) two fried eggs ‘sunny-side up’.
| El Paso Herald (TX) 31 Jan. 8/2: For two fried eggs there are various terms [...] ‘bride and groom,’ ‘straight up two’ and ‘two moons looking at you’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 245: two looking up Two eggs fried on one side only. | |
| (con. 1930s) Sundae Best 175: TWO LOOKING AT YOU: An order for two eggs sunny-side up. |
(UK Und.) extremely intimate.
| Raiders 184: He was a good geezer to go two-of-toast with, as he was [...] intensely loyal to his mates. |
(UK und.) a back pocket.
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 11: Two o run [sic]: Back pocket. |
(US short order) two fried eggs turned over in the pan.
| One-Way Ride 35: Hoodlums who in old days had been glad of enough chicken feed to buy [...] ‘two in the pan.’. |
(US) two eggs fried on one side only.
| Sun (NY) 28 Mar. 2/6: Fried eggs unturned are called ‘eggs with eyes open’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
let’s have a (twopenny) drink.
| Referee 12 June in (1909) 253/1: Arthur Roberts may be congratulated. At the finish his friends crowded around, and challenged him with a ‘Two with you.’. |