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couple three en · DET

Etymology

couple + three

Meanings

  1. (US, colloquial) Two or three or a similarly small number of.
    • I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours. 1998, Nora Roberts, Sanctuary:
    • General Chalmers is camped a couple-three miles in back of us. 2007, Harry Turtledove, Fort Pillow:
    • Cops picked her up at the Greyhound station a couple-three winters ago, shivering, hungry, dirty as a gutter rat. 2012, Loree Lough, A Man of Honor:
    • So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle. 1976, Mendocino County Remembered: An Oral History, Mendocino County Historical Society:
    • Then why don't you let me take the paper over for a couple-three days and ask Avis to finish the job? 2004, Bernard Malamud, A New Life:
    • One day not met, yet, nor even on that street alone has been sighted, then a couple three days later after the fullness of fades, they go. 2001, Susan Perly, Love Street:

Synonyms

a couple two three