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couple-three

couple-three is the alternative form of couple three.

Meaning of couple three

Determiner

couple three

  1. (US, colloquial) Two or three or a similarly small number of.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    a couple two three

Questions about couple-three

What is couple-three the alternative form of?
Couple-three is the alternative form of couple three.

Words near couple-three in the dictionary

  1. couple-beggar
  2. couple-beggars
  3. couple-close
  4. couple-closes
  5. couple-ish
  6. couple-three
  7. couple-y
  8. couplea
  9. coupleable
  10. coupled
  11. coupled up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: couple-three (page history and authors); couple three (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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