"couple three" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "couple + three",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, Mendocino County Historical Society",
          "text": "So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nora Roberts, Sanctuary",
          "text": "I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Susan Perly, Love Street",
          "text": "One day not met, yet, nor even on that street alone has been sighted, then a couple three days later after the fullness of fades, they go.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Bernard Malamud, A New Life",
          "text": "Then why don't you let me take the paper over for a couple-three days and ask Avis to finish the job?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Harry Turtledove, Fort Pillow",
          "text": "General Chalmers is camped a couple-three miles in back of us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Loree Lough, A Man of Honor",
          "text": "Cops picked her up at the Greyhound station a couple-three winters ago, shivering, hungry, dirty as a gutter rat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Two or three or a similarly small number of."
      ],
      "id": "en-couple_three-en-det-5pNXDFm-",
      "links": [
        [
          "Two",
          "two"
        ],
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, US) Two or three or a similarly small number of."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "a couple two three"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple three"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "couple + three",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "2": "determiner"
      },
      "expansion": "couple three",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English determiners",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/iː",
        "Rhymes:English/iː/3 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, Mendocino County Historical Society",
          "text": "So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nora Roberts, Sanctuary",
          "text": "I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Susan Perly, Love Street",
          "text": "One day not met, yet, nor even on that street alone has been sighted, then a couple three days later after the fullness of fades, they go.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Bernard Malamud, A New Life",
          "text": "Then why don't you let me take the paper over for a couple-three days and ask Avis to finish the job?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Harry Turtledove, Fort Pillow",
          "text": "General Chalmers is camped a couple-three miles in back of us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Loree Lough, A Man of Honor",
          "text": "Cops picked her up at the Greyhound station a couple-three winters ago, shivering, hungry, dirty as a gutter rat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Two or three or a similarly small number of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Two",
          "two"
        ],
        [
          "three",
          "three"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, US) Two or three or a similarly small number of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "a couple two three"
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple three"
}