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▪ I. ˈtwo-time, a. slang (orig. U.S.).
1. [f. two times adv. phr. s.v. two B. 1 d.] Characterized by something that has happened or been done twice; two-time loser: see loser 4.
1897R. M. Johnston Middle Georgia 113 Is a widder, even a two-time widder, got nothin' else to do but..go about grievin' for them that's gone? 1960Guardian 14 July 9/1 A threat to unseat one man..for his two-time allegiance to Eisenhower. 1972Publisher's Weekly 3 Jan. 9 This book by a two-time ABC Master Tournament winner. 1979A. V. Badgley Rembrandt Decisions (1980) xv. 212 Maybe they won't go [sc. be stolen] any more... Maybe it was just a two-time snatch.
2. [f. the vb.] Double-crossing, two-timing.
1937E. S. Gardner Case of Dangerous Dowager xii. 231 You think I'm a two-time, chiseling crook.
▪ II. ˈtwo-time, v. slang (orig. U.S.).
trans. To deceive (esp. a person to whom one owes loyalty); to be unfaithful to (a spouse or lover); to double-cross. Also absol. or intr.
1924J. Edwards in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) ii. 64 She'll two-time you like she double-crossed me. 1926E. Hemingway Sun also Rises i. vii. 66 The drummer shouted: ‘You can't two time ―’. 1937Wodehouse Summer Moonshine (1938) xxiv. 287, I can tell you it pretty near broke me up when I found you were two-timing me that way. Letting another guy send you jewellery. 1959‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade v. 63 You can't go two-timing the police and skipping out of the country on a stolen passport. 1959M. Renault Charioteer vi. 117 In return you've done nothing but two-time me. 1975Time Out 10 Jan. 65/2 Do all attractive slim girls think it clever to lie and two-time? 1981Sunday Times 8 Mar. 8/2 Judith Exner..two-timed the late President John Kennedy with a leader of organised crime.
Hence two-timing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also two-timer, one who double-crosses or is unfaithful.
1927K. Nicholson Barker i. ii. 53 You dirty two-timer, you can't get away with that. 1927‘C. Woolrich’ Children of Ritz viii. 149 Two-timing was what they called that, when a wife went out in other company. 1927Columbia Record Catal. 205/2 My two-timing papa. 1935Discovery Nov. 346/2 His criticism of the hypocritical quakers and ‘two-timing’ politicians..is too strong. 1942Daily Mirror (N.Y.) 7 Aug. 5/4 The girl had a gun..and told McNaughton: ‘You're a two-timer and no good... I'm going to kill you.’ 1959N. Marsh False Scent (1960) i. 36 You little, two-timing, double-crossing, dirty rat. 1974G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies xii. 182 I'd written him off as a two-timer who'd run away to save his own skin. 1982N. Painting Reluctant Archer iii. 36 Goneril's two-timing of her worthy but dull husband. 1984Listener 26 Jan. 31/3 Rogers plays a chorus girl out to make a show business reputation by confessing to the murder of her two-timing lover. |