number nines
number nines is the plural of number nine.
Meaning of number nine
Noun
number nine (plural number nines)
- The batsman who bats ninth.
- A centre forward or striker, often but not necessarily wearing the uniform number 9.
- A laxative pill.
- A number nine pill was all they could hope for if they went sick.1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 310 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)
Words that rhyme with number nines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about number nines
- What is number nines the plural of?
- Number nines is the plural of number nine.
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