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单词 two-up
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two-upn.adj.adv.

Etymology: up adv.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtwo-up.
A. n. (and adj.)
1. Australian and New Zealand. A gambling game played by tossing two coins, bets being laid on the showing of two heads or two tails.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > two up, etc. > [noun]
Tommy Dodd1865
odd man wins1884
two-up1898
swy1940
swy game1950
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Sept. 32 At 'loo he'd lately scooped the pool; He'd simply smashed the two-up school.
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. Red Page/2 The kip is the piece of wood used in ‘two-up’, otherwise pitch and toss.
1911 L. 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.
1916 G. 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.
1948 V. Palmer Golconda iv. 27 A fellow of some power, a fellow who had been used to handling the rough crowds of two-up rings.
1952 J. Cleary Sundowners 229 Who's for a game of two-up? Got just the place out the back?
1960 P. Wilson in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 129 Some had a two-up school going on in the corner.
1965 B. 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!’
1980 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 June 3/4 Two-up is banned in Queensland.
1982 G. 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 n. U.S. (see quot.).
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1931 Amer. Speech Oct. 47 The men who drive the ‘four-up’, the four mule teams, are ‘higher’ than the ‘two-up drivers’.
3. two-up two-down n. (also two-up and two-down) a house with two reception rooms downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs. Also attributive or as adj. So two-up-and-two-downer.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style
hall-house1467
longhouse1643
bungalow1676
single housea1684
tower-house1687
villa1755
box1773
cottage orné1774
villarette1792
mews1805
cottage1808
terrace house1817
casita1822
villa dwelling1833
villa residence1833
box-house1846
six-roomer1853
terrace1854
tembe1860
moat house1871
parlour house1871
row house1871
salt-box1876
trullo1898
townhouse1900
colonial1903
semi1912
Cape Cod1916
bungaloid1927
semi-detached1928
ranchette1938
solar house1946
rambler1947
rancher1950
ranch1951
tunnel-back1957
sidesplit1958
two-up-and-two-downer1958
two-up two-down1958
semi-det1960
A-frame1963
townhouse1965
tri-level1965
link house1968
split1970
dormer bungalow1977
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > house of specific shape or style
back-to-back1626
detached1706
self-contained1767
ground-floored1824
semi-detached1859
bungaloid1927
bi-level1929
one-up, one-down1933
blind back1937
terraced1958
tri-level1960
split entry1967
two-up two-down1973
1958 Listener 7 Aug. 212/1 The microphone popped in and out of the two-up-and-two-downers.
1962 Radio Times 2 Aug. 37/2 Recalling such local institutions [in Liverpool] as ‘the two-up, two-downs’.
1970 J. Sangster Touchfeather, Too v. 125 A smart little two up and two down somewhere in the suburbs.
1973 Times 18 May 4/5 Long, straight terraces of miners' cottages, typically two up, two down.
1978 Times 18 May 18/4 I am a poor cotton town boy who grew up in a two-up two-down.
1978 M. Kenyon Deep Pocket vi. 71 The two-up, two-down brick and dinginess of Ensign Terrace.
B. adv.
Two at a time, two together.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adverb]
two-up1926
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lx. 319 The man made camel less could double-bank another, riding two-up, in emergency.
1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 25 Master output for photo-litho reproduction ‘two-up’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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