See have a couple on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "has a couple",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "having a couple",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "had a couple",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "had a couple",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "have<has,,had> a couple"
},
"expansion": "have a couple (third-person singular simple present has a couple, present participle having a couple, simple past and past participle had a couple)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
58,
70
]
],
"ref": "1992, Wesley Gibson, Shelter, Harmony Books, page 144:",
"text": "He's kind of funny and likes to play the guitar when he's had a couple.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
54
]
],
"ref": "2005, Fay Freimuth, A Multitude of Mercies, iUniverse, page 155:",
"text": "It's like he sees me as a woman once he's had a couple.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
217,
229
]
],
"ref": "2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters, The Rock from the Sky, Evans Brothers, page 41:",
"text": "For even the puniest, wouldn’t know a muscle if it shook his hand at a party and said ‘Hello, I’m Mister Bicep,’ foul-mouthed, inconsiderate, insensitive, ‘isn’t a feeling what you do with your hands?’ oaf– once he's had a couple (and he is dreaming of coupling) – voila!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
],
"id": "en-have_a_couple-en-verb-9MDFEvzy",
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
],
[
"alcohol",
"alcohol"
],
[
"slightly",
"slightly"
],
[
"moderately",
"moderately"
],
[
"drunk",
"drunk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "have a few"
}
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "have a couple"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "has a couple",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "having a couple",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "had a couple",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "had a couple",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "have<has,,had> a couple"
},
"expansion": "have a couple (third-person singular simple present has a couple, present participle having a couple, simple past and past participle had a couple)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
58,
70
]
],
"ref": "1992, Wesley Gibson, Shelter, Harmony Books, page 144:",
"text": "He's kind of funny and likes to play the guitar when he's had a couple.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
54
]
],
"ref": "2005, Fay Freimuth, A Multitude of Mercies, iUniverse, page 155:",
"text": "It's like he sees me as a woman once he's had a couple.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
217,
229
]
],
"ref": "2008, Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters, The Rock from the Sky, Evans Brothers, page 41:",
"text": "For even the puniest, wouldn’t know a muscle if it shook his hand at a party and said ‘Hello, I’m Mister Bicep,’ foul-mouthed, inconsiderate, insensitive, ‘isn’t a feeling what you do with your hands?’ oaf– once he's had a couple (and he is dreaming of coupling) – voila!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
],
"links": [
[
"drink",
"drink"
],
[
"alcohol",
"alcohol"
],
[
"slightly",
"slightly"
],
[
"moderately",
"moderately"
],
[
"drunk",
"drunk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "have a few"
}
],
"word": "have a couple"
}
Download raw JSONL data for have a couple meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.