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number
noun- a person, particularly someone attractive, originally of a woman US, 1896
- [A] “number” is a potential or actual or merely desired partner in vagrant sex. — John Rechy, Numbers, p. 16, 1967
- Darling, there’s nothing I love more than knowing that some big bitch number fancies my arse. Except, perhaps, letting him have it. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 302, 2001
- [C]heck out the butch number over there! — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 184, 2002
- a prostitute’s client (especially in a male homosexual context) US, 1967
- I have three main trips–hustling, “numbers” and mutual contacts with certain people[.] — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 69, 1977
- a casual sex-partner US
- — American Speech, p. 58, Spring–Summer 1970: “Homosexual slang”
- sex involving more than two people US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 25, 1973
- Ms. Murphy said she thought it sounded fantastic and why didn’t they just leave the whole number up to Pierre. — Cyra McFadden, The Serial, p. 29, 1977
- a situation US, 1908
- I’ll do my New York number, and you do your Akrons and your Denvers. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 201, 1972
- “Okay,” he said, “now here’s a funny number a couple of guys I know run from time to time.” — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 18, 1981
- An interesting number gets played out these days by fifty-year-old brothers who’ve had white women play prominent roles in their lives; some of them go into a deep denial mode. — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, 1994
- a job, a position UK, 1948
- So she got a number up west. Left home 8.20 in the morning[.] — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 13, 1999
- [George W.] Bush, whose dad helped him book a cushy number in the Air National Guard — Guardian, 8 April 2003
- used as a vague catch-all susceptible of several meanings, usually related to sex or drugs US
- “I recognized him right away, because him and me did a little number last month on his houseboat in Sausalito.” “A little number?” “Fucked.” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 21, 1978
- in prison, a sex offender; a convicted paedophile UK
Such prisoners are kept apart from the main body of the prison on rule number 43. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 23, 1996
- in craps, any roll except the shooter’s point or a seven US
- He picked up the dice and throwed six numbers. — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
- a marijuana cigarette US, 1963
- They light another number, passing ir around like tribal Indians. — John Rechy, The Fourth Angel, p. 22, 1972
- Think I’ll roll another number for the road[.] — Neil Young, Roll Another Number, 1975
- [W]e both went to the “john” [lavatory] and knocked up a couple of numbers, which we put to good use before we hit the streets. — Ken Lukowiak, Marijuana Time, p. 94, 2000
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 288, 2003
- a song UK, 1878
- When you take off on a number, it sounds as though you never know where you’re going to come out, you just going flying off into musical space. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 330, 1946
▶ do a number on- to use emotional pressure, to humiliate US, 1971
- You really fucked me, Kim / You really did a number on me. — Eminem (Marshall Mathers), Kim, 2000
- to kill US
- [S]he can pay back the money and a penalty, because she is Charley’s wife and we don’t do numbers on wives[.] — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 270, 1982
▶ have your number; get your number
to understand you, to know your weaknesses, to be in a position to criticise you UK, 1853- Mr Horne: Yes, I was helping her with her career. Sandy: Oooh! Helping her, that’s alright ducky, we’ve all got your number! — Barry Took and Marty Feldman, Round The Horne, April 1967
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