# twos

Pronunciation: say "TOOZ" US /tuz/, UK /tuːz/

## Noun

1. Plural of two. — plural of two.
   - Simple: Plural of two. Use this form when you mean more than one two.
   - _The hikers set off in twos along the narrow trail._
   - _She lined the glasses up in twos on the shelf._
2. The stage of early childhood when a child is two years old.
   - Simple: The time in early childhood when a child is two years old.
   - _Tantrums are common throughout the twos, then fade as language develops._
   - _Parenting books devote whole chapters to surviving the twos._
3. A club's reserve team, made up of players who are not in the first team.
   - Simple: A club's backup team, made up of reserve players.
   - _After his injury, the striker turned out for the twos to regain fitness._
   - _Several youngsters were promoted from the twos to the first team this season._
4. A pair of cards, each ranked two, held together in a poker hand. *(slang)*
   - Simple: In a card game, two cards that each have the number two.
   - _He raised the bet despite holding nothing better than twos._
   - _Twos rarely win a showdown, but he got lucky against a weak table._
5. The cells located on the first floor of a prison. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: In a prison, the cells found on the first floor.
   - _Most of the older prisoners had cells up on the twos._
   - _A fight broke out on the twos just after lockup._

## Verb

6. To share a cigarette with someone, passing it on after smoking half yourself. *(dialectal, Multicultural London English)*
   - Simple: To give someone the rest of your cigarette after you smoke half.
   - _He likes to twos his last cigarette with a friend on the walk home._
   - _Would you twos that with me? I'm out of smokes._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/twos (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).