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ˈtwo-up, n. and adv. (a.)
[up adv.2]
A. n.
1. Austral. and N.Z. A gambling game played by tossing two coins, bets being laid on the showing of two heads or two tails.
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Sept. 32 At 'loo he'd lately scooped the pool; He'd simply smashed the two-up school. 1898[see kip n.6]. 1911L. Stone Jonah vi. 213 He marked pak-a-pu tickets, took the kip at two-up, and staked his last shilling more readily than the first. 1916G. Thornton Wowser viii. 108 Forty young men..were..playing that favourite but not intellectual game of chance, ‘two-up’. 1936‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell viii. 137 Two dozen mounted police charged the two-up schools, involving a heavy loss of stakes as the men scattered. 1948V. Palmer Golconda iv. 27 A fellow of some power, a fellow who had been used to handling the rough crowds of two-up rings. 1952J. Cleary Sundowners 229 Who's for a game of two-up? Got just the place out the back? 1960P. Wilson in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 129 Some had a two-up school going on in the corner. 1965B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner iv. 192 The landlord of the pub, who ran the two-up school, roared out to them, ‘Stay where you are, around the ring, but put your dough outa sight!’ 1980Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 June 3/4 Two-up is banned in Queensland. 1982G. Greer in Observer 8 Aug. 21/3 Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
2. two-up (and) two-down, a house with two reception rooms downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. Also attrib. or as adj. phr. So two-up-and-two-downer.
1958Listener 7 Aug. 212/1 The microphone popped in and out of the two-up-and-two-downers. 1962Radio Times 2 Aug. 37/2 Recalling such local institutions [in Liverpool] as ‘the two-up, two-downs’. 1970J. Sangster Touchfeather, Too v. 125 A smart little two up and two down somewhere in the suburbs. 1973Times 18 May 4/5 Long, straight terraces of miners' cottages, typically two up, two down. 1978Times 18 May 18/4, I am a poor cotton town boy who grew up in a two-up two-down. 1978M. Kenyon Deep Pocket vi. 71 The two-up, two-down brick and dinginess of Ensign Terrace.
B. adv. Two at a time, two together.
1926[see double-bank v. 2]. 1967Cox & Grose Organization & Handling Bibl. Rec. by Computer ii. 25 Master output for photo-litho reproduction ‘two-up’. |