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number one
noun- yourself, your own interests UK, 1705
- [H]e started off thinking of number one. — Robert Rossen, All the King’s Men, 1949
- Take care of business; look out for number one–one way or the other there’ll always be hustlers. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 81, 1975
- Hard from years of fights and self-defence and looking after number one. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 163, 2001
- urination UK, 1801
The plural variant “number ones” is also used. - “You know, I even used to think that teachers didn’t make number one or number two, like God or the saints.” — Jose Antonio Villarreal, Pocho, p. 70, 1959
- On the other hand, some corresponding euphemistic expressions (e.g., dickie, peepee, weewee, number one, number two, to move the bowels, to pass water, to make love, and so on), obviously evasive in their very structure, do have considerable usage. — Eros, p. 69, Autum 1962
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 164, 1968
- I feel like I am five years old. Mama, may I go to the potty? Number one? Number two? — Beatrice Sparks (writing as ‘Anonymous’), Jay’s Journal, p. 137, 1979
- Liquid Gold 5 features women doing number one and (ain’t that America!) getting paid for it. — New Times Los Angeles, 19 July 2001
- a closely cropped haircut UK, 1925
Originally mililtary, from the most extreme setting on the clippers; it is also possible to have a “number two”, etc. - [A]s uninformed as Samson when he was napping and was given a number one cut by that sly bint[.] — Guardian, 20 December 2001
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