number

number

1. slang A person or thing regarded for a particular quality or characteristic. I just bought a new dress, a cute little number to wear on my date this Thursday. The health inspector came by today. He's an odd number, isn't he?
2. slang A speech, performance, argument, etc., that is frequently repeated by and characteristic of a particular person or group. Tom started doing his usual "woe-is-me" number after his performance review.
3. dated slang A marijuana cigarette; a joint. He handed me a number, and we both lit up while we watched the sun come up.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

number

1. n. a girl or woman; a sexually attractive girl. Who is that cute little number I saw you with?
2. n. a marijuana cigarette. (Drugs.) Shorty lit up a number just as the boss came in.
3. n. any person or thing. This is an interesting little number. You attach it to your bicycle handlebars.
4. n. an act or performance; a performance specialty. Ann did her number and left the stage.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one's) number comes up
  • (one's) number is up
  • (one's) opposite number
  • (some number of) games in hand
  • (someone's or something's) days are numbered
  • (the) best of (an odd number)
  • a back number
  • a cushy number
  • a hot number
  • A number 1
  • a number of
  • a number of (something)
  • a number one
  • a numbers game
  • a/the numbers game
  • A-1
  • any amount of (something)
  • any amount/number of something
  • any number of
  • A-one
  • back number
  • beyond number
  • bricks shy of a load
  • by numbers
  • by the book
  • by the numbers
  • count up to (some number)
  • crunch (the) numbers
  • crunch numbers
  • cushy number
  • days are numbered, one's
  • days are numbered, one's/his/its
  • do a job on
  • do a job on someone From do a number on something.
  • do a number on
  • do a number on (someone or something)
  • do a number on somebody/something
  • do a number on someone
  • do a number on something
  • do a number on, to
  • exchange no more than
  • file off the serial number(s)
  • force of numbers
  • get (one's) number
  • get someone's number
  • go number one
  • go number two
  • have (got) (one's) number
  • have (one's) (name and) number on it
  • have (someone's) number on it
  • have somebody's number
  • have someone's number
  • have someone's number on it
  • have the wrong number
  • hot number
  • in round figures/numbers
  • in round numbers
  • look after number one
  • look out for
  • look out for number one
  • lose the number of (one's) mess
  • make (one's) number
  • make your number
  • number
  • number among
  • number cruncher
  • number crunching
  • number in
  • number is up, one's
  • number of things or people
  • number off
  • number one
  • number one with a bullet
  • Number Ten
  • number two
  • number with
  • number-cruncher
  • numbers game
  • number's up, one's/your/his
  • one's days are numbered
  • one's number is up
  • opposite number, one's
  • out in large numbers
  • public enemy number one
  • quite a few
  • quite a number
  • random number
  • round down
  • round down to (something)
  • round up
  • round up to (something)
  • safety in numbers
  • safety in numbers, there's
  • someone's days are numbered
  • someone's number is up
  • split in (number or fraction)
  • split into (number or fraction)
  • take a number
  • take care of number one
  • the big (number)-o
  • There is safety in numbers
  • there's safety in numbers
  • weight of numbers
  • What number are you calling from?
  • What number are you calling?
  • without number
  • wrong number
  • your opposite number
  • your, its, etc. days are numbered
  • your/somebody's number comes up
  • your/somebody's number is up
  • your/somebody's number two
References in classic literature
In the case of every species, many different checks, acting at different periods of life, and during different seasons or years, probably come into play; some one check or some few being generally the most potent, but all concurring in determining the average number or even the existence of the species.
Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.
In looking at Nature, it is most necessary to keep the foregoing considerations always in mind--never to forget that every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase in numbers; that each lives by a struggle at some period of its life; that heavy destruction inevitably falls either on the young or old, during each generation or at recurrent intervals.
The Origin of Species
(on the second floor), which, not being to let, had not previously been numbered at all.
Having warned the servants to beware of gossiping with travellers, on the subject of the changed numbers, under penalty of being dismissed, the manager composed his mind with the reflection that he had done his duty to his employers.
The Haunted Hotel
In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.
By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects.
The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison
"Ah, poor Number One," he sighed, "that you should have come to such an untimely end--my child, my child."
Sing was looking about for evidences of the cause of Number One's death and the probable direction in which Virginia Maxon had disappeared.
In silence the three men followed the new trail, all puzzled beyond measure to account for the death of Number One at the hands of what must have been a creature of superhuman strength.
The Monster Men
To keep in the easy road, and keep it at a distance, is object number one with you.'
The first is your number one, the second my number one.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
I soon began this work, having collected a number of enterprising men, well armed.
They continued their hostilities in this manner until the fifteenth of April, 1777, when they attacked Boonsborough with a party of above one hundred in number, killed one man, and wounded four--Their loss in this attack was not certainly known to us.
Adventures Of Col Daniel Boone