See twos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "twoses",
"2": "twosing",
"3": "twosed"
},
"expansion": "twos (third-person singular simple present twoses, present participle twosing, simple past and past participle twosed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Multicultural London English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007 January 29, “Pacemaker” (track 8), in Jamie T (lyrics), Panic Prevention:",
"text": "With a lump in your throat, she won’t understand\nTwos on a cigarette and talk blah-blah",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 July 3, “Lightwork Freestyle”, Y.CB of 7th (lyrics):",
"text": "Tell bro “make sure you twos that, yute!”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To share a cigarette with someone after smoking half of it."
],
"links": [
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"cigarette",
"cigarette"
],
[
"smoking",
"smoke"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, MLE) To share a cigarette with someone after smoking half of it."
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/tuːz/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰu̟ːz]",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"enpr": "to͞oz",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/tuz/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[tʰu̟z]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"enpr": "to͞oz",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːz"
}
],
"word": "twos"
}
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