two-timeadj.
slang (originally U.S.).
1. [ < two times adverbial phrase s.v. two adj. 1d.] Characterized by something that has happened or been done twice; two-time loser: see two-time (or three-time, etc.) loser at loser n. 4.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adjective] > two times
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1897 R. M. Johnston Old Times Mid. Georgia 113 Is a widder, even a two-time widder, got nothin' else to do but..go about grievin' for them that's gone?
1960 Guardian 14 July 9/1 A threat to unseat one man..for his two-time allegiance to Eisenhower.
1972 Publishers Weekly 3 Jan. 9 This book by a two-time ABC Master Tournament winner.
1979 A. 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. [ < two-time v.] Double-crossing, two-timing.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective]
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] > double-dealing > in action
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1937 E. S. Gardner Case of Dangerous Dowager xii. 231 You think I'm a two-time, chiseling crook.
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two-timev.
slang (originally U.S.).
transitive. To deceive (esp. a person to whom one owes loyalty); to be unfaithful to (a spouse or lover); to double-cross. Also absol. or intransitive.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > unchaste [verb (transitive)] > be unfaithful to
two-time1924
to cheat on1934
to run around1951
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > double-cross
double-cross1889
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > be a traitor to [verb (transitive)]
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to play a person foul1799
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to stab (a person, etc.) in the back1916
two-time1959
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be unfaithful
to fool around1923
to cheat on1934
two-time1975
1924 J. Edwards in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) ii. 64 She'll two-time you like she double-crossed me.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises i. vii. 66 The drummer shouted: ‘You can't two time ——’.
1937 P. G. Wodehouse 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.
1959 ‘M. Renault’ Charioteer vi. 117 In return you've done nothing but two-time me.
1975 Time Out 10 Jan. 65/2 Do all attractive slim girls think it clever to lie and two-time?
1981 Sunday Times 8 Mar. 8/2 Judith Exner..two-timed the late President John Kennedy with a leader of organised crime.
Derivatives
two-timing n. and adj.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective]
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > unfaithfulness
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unfaithful
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > double-dealing, duplicity > two-timing, double-crossing
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] > double-dealing > in action
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1927 ‘C. Woolrich’ Children of Ritz viii. 149 Two-timing was what they called that, when a wife went out in other company.
1927 Columbia Record Catal. 205/2 My two-timing papa.
1935 Discovery Nov. 346/2 His criticism of the hypocritical quakers and ‘two-timing’ politicians..is too strong.
1959 N. Marsh False Scent (1960) i. 36 You little, two-timing, double-crossing, dirty rat.
1982 N. Painting Reluctant Archer iii. 36 Goneril's two-timing of her worthy but dull husband.
1984 Listener 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.
two-timer n. one who double-crosses or is unfaithful.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treacherous person
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > unfaithfulness > person
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [noun] > double-dealing, duplicity > two-timing, double-crossing > practitioner of
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1927 K. Nicholson Barker i. ii. 53 You dirty two-timer, you can't get away with that.
1942 Daily 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.’
1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies xii. 182 I'd written him off as a two-timer who'd run away to save his own skin.
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