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two-up

[ too-uhp ]

noun

  1. a game in which two players bet that two tossed coins will land either with matching or nonmatching sides facing up.


two-up

noun

  1. a gambling game in which two coins are tossed or spun. Bets are made on both coins landing with the same face uppermost
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of two-up1

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
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Two-up on the 18th tee, he took out a three-wood and "nuked it" according to Mickelson’s caddie, Jim 'Bones' Mackay.

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In the slum clearance programme after World War Two, her grandparents were relocated to Essex, along with thousands of other people living in dilapidated two-up, two-down Victorian houses who moved out of the capital.

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He grew up in London's East End in an over-crowded two-up, two-down terrace.

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She downsized a few years back and now lives alone in a two-up, two-down house which she spent a good part of her savings making improvements to in order to be as energy efficient as possible.

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And riding two-up was such a pleasure that it makes me want to abandon traditional diamond-framed e-bikes forever.

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