"twopenny rope" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: twopenny ropes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} twopenny rope (plural twopenny ropes)
  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A rope stretched out in a low doss-house in order to suspend a kind of hammock of sacking on which a person can sleep. Tags: UK, obsolete, slang
    Sense id: en-twopenny_rope-en-noun-V4r7vh5P Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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