twos

Noun

plural form of two
It's odd there were no twos in the winning lottery numbers.
The age of two; two years old.
The boy in his twos is just learning to walk.
Twos are the hardest year on parents.
(poker slang) A pair of twos.

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The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half- ruined houses.
They were sent out in twos, an ecclesiastic and a layman, and were generally complete strangers to the district which they administered.
A flower in which the parts are arranged in twos is called dimerous; when the parts of the whorls are three, four or five, the flower is trimerous, tetramerous or pentamerous, respectively.
She replied immediately, "Twenty twos make forty."
The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov.

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