Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

number two en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (US, not-comparable) White, Caucasian.

number two en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (childish, countable, euphemistic, uncountable, usually) Feces; the act of defecation.
    • I need to go number two.
    • He might have got up, without the bell's sounding, to do his number one, or number two, in his great big white chamber-pot. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
  2. (countable, slang, uncountable) A first mate.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A primary assistant; vice-leader.
    • After she had shown great promise over the last 10 years, he made her his number two.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The batsman who opens alongside the number one, but does not face the first delivery.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A backup player, especially a goalkeeper.
    • Head coach Ruben Amorim will be asked by media on Wednesday who will start in goal for their crucial Europa League quarter-final with Lyon, Onana or United's latest scapegoat, number two Altay Bayindir. 2025 April 15, Simon Stone, “Why Amorim's next move on Onana is a big call”, in BBC Sport:
  6. (countable, uncountable) A right back.
    • I came down here to cement the number two position, the right back role and I’ve not really managed to do that. 2015 December 30, Mike Simmonds, quoting Stephen O’Donnell, “O’Donnell wants to make right back slot his own”, in Luton Today:
  7. (countable, uncountable) A somewhat small town, between a number one and a number three, where the success of a theatrical performance is unlikely to be very great.
  8. (countable, uncountable) A pencil with hardness level 2.
    • “I’ll need pencils, preferably number twos,” I told Miss Rose, who, for some reason, had not budged. 2015, Sheila Turnage, “Friday Night Miracle”, in The Odds of Getting Even, Kathy Dawson Books, →ISBN, page 234:
    • I reach into my bag, pull out my pencil case, and offer Jason one of my fully sharpened number twos. 2012, Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 108:
    • They say you should be able to slip a pencil under your boob and if it doesn’t fall out, you’re too saggy. Shit, I could stick a whole box of number twos under these girls and keep them there until next semester. 2012, Sandra Kring, A Life of Bright Ideas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 287:
  9. (Philippines, countable, uncountable) mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations)
  10. (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, two.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
number twos Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

number three · number one · and so on

Deriveds

go number two · do number two

Descendants

ナンバーツー

Synonyms

defecation (act of defecation) · feces (feces)

Translations (20)

ru больша́я нужда́ (feces or defecation euphemism) · cs velká (feces or defecation euphemism) · ru по-большому (feces or defecation euphemism) · ja 大 (feces or defecation euphemism) · fr grosse commission (feces or defecation euphemism) · sw haja kubwa (feces or defecation euphemism) · es dos (feces or defecation euphemism) · sv stort ärende (feces or defecation euphemism) · el χοντρό (feces or defecation euphemism) · sv bajs (feces or defecation euphemism) · fi iso hätä (feces or defecation euphemism) · ru большо́е де́ло (feces or defecation euphemism) · cs velká potřeba (feces or defecation euphemism) · mk го́лема ну́жда (feces or defecation euphemism) · pt número dois (feces or defecation euphemism) · tr büyük tuvalet (feces or defecation euphemism) · pl dwójka (feces or defecation euphemism) · tr büyük (feces or defecation euphemism) · sv nummer två (feces or defecation euphemism) · nl grote boodschap (feces or defecation euphemism)