词组 | number |
释义 | number Theme: DRUGS - MARIJUANA n. a marijuana cigarette.Max lit up a number just as the boss came in.Can I have a hit off your number? Theme: PERFORMANCE n. an act or performance; a performance specialty.Ann did her number and left the stage.I'll talk to you after my number. Theme: WOMAN - ATTRACTIVE n. a girl; a sexually attractive girl.Who is that cute little number I saw you with?She is really some number. bazillion n. an indefinite, enormous number.Ernie gave me a bazillion good reasons why he shouldn't do it.Next year's bazillion-dollar budget should make things even worse. double-deuces n. the number 22.The National Weather Service says it's going down to the double-deuces tonight.nonsense - He's double-deuces today—that's right, twenty-two years old! double nickels and double buffalo n. the number 55; the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (Originally citizens band radio. The buffalo is on one side of the nickel and accounts for the 5.)You'd better travel right on those double nickels in through here. The bears are hungry.The double buffalo is enforced on this road. number noun 1 a person, particularly someone attractive, originally of a woman US, 1896. 2 a prostitute's client (especially in a male homosexual context) US, 1967. 3 a casual sex-partner US, 1970. 4 sex involving more than two people US, 1973. 5 a situation US, 1908. 6 a job, a position UK, 1948. 7 used as a vague catch-all susceptible of several meanings, usually related to sex or drugs US, 1978. 8 in prison, a sex offender; a convicted paedophile. Such prisoners are kept apart from the main body of the prison on rule number 43 UK, 1996. 9 in craps, any roll except the shooter's point or a seven US, 1950. 10 a marijuana cigarette US, 1963. 11 a song UK, 1878.► do a number on1. to use emotional pressure, to humiliate US, 1971.2. to kill US, 1982.► have your number; get your numberto understand you, to know your weaknesses, to be in a position to criticise you UK, 1853 number among number sb/sth among sth • number among formal to include someone or something among a particular group, or to be included in such a group: a beautiful woman who numbered Zola among her many admirers IBM and Hewlett Packard are numbered among Mentat's customers in the US. Welsh numbers among the best of our young writers. number off 1. number off BrE if soldiers number off, they call out their number one after the other while standing in a line: When the cadets were ordered to line up and number off, it became apparent that someone was missing.■ SIMILAR TO: count off AmE2. be numbered off if the members of a group are numbered off, especially children, they are each given their own number, starting with the number one: To start the game, the children stand in a semi-circle and are numbered off. number1. 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.
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