one and nines in English

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "one and nines pl (plural only)",
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          "ref": "2013, Tom Davies, Polly Garter's War",
          "text": "When Tomorrow Comes was probably some sort of weepy love story which always got him laughing like a drain, often leading to his physical removal from the one and nines.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Cheap seats in a theatre, costing one shilling and nine pence."
      ],
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        ],
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          "shilling",
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        ],
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          "pence",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(UK, historical) Cheap seats in a theatre, costing one shilling and nine pence."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "historical",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "one and nines"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "one and nines pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Tom Davies, Polly Garter's War",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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          "seat",
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        ],
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        "plural",
        "plural-only"
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}

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"one and nines" meaning in English

Noun