"ones and twos" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "ones and twos pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "64 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical instruments",
          "orig": "en:Musical instruments",
          "parents": [
            "Music",
            "Tools",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Technology",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ebony A. Utley, Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God, page 11:",
          "text": "During hip hop's early days when the DJ was busy with his ones and twos, MCs (masters of ceremony, microphone controllers, or movers of the crowd) spoke over the records by invoking the spirit of the party gods.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Turntables used by DJs."
      ],
      "id": "en-ones_and_twos-en-noun-5BLJIH4p",
      "links": [
        [
          "Turntables",
          "turntable"
        ],
        [
          "DJ",
          "DJ"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Turntables used by DJs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:",
          "text": "But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the \"Down Special\"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small numbers of something."
      ],
      "id": "en-ones_and_twos-en-noun-2y-PD4K6",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-the ones and twos.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ones and twos"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English coordinated pairs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English pluralia tantum",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Musical instruments"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "ones and twos pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Ebony A. Utley, Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God, page 11:",
          "text": "During hip hop's early days when the DJ was busy with his ones and twos, MCs (masters of ceremony, microphone controllers, or movers of the crowd) spoke over the records by invoking the spirit of the party gods.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Turntables used by DJs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Turntables",
          "turntable"
        ],
        [
          "DJ",
          "DJ"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Turntables used by DJs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:",
          "text": "But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the \"Down Special\"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small numbers of something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-the ones and twos.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-au-the_ones_and_twos.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ones and twos"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_description/20250107",
  "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
  "path": [
    "ones and twos"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ones and twos",
  "trace": ""
}