Green’s Dictionary of Slang

once-or-twice n.

[rhy. sl.]

a slice, e.g. of cake.

[UK]Hartlepool Northern Dly Mail 28 Jan. 5/5: I heard a coffee stall customer ask [...] for a ‘Once or twice of Sexton Blake, please’ and the proprietor said, ‘Will you have it in your German or the linen draper?’.