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number two

number two adjective: white, Caucasian.

Adjective

number two (not comparable)

  1. (US) White, Caucasian.

Noun

number two (countable and uncountable, plural number twos)

  1. (childish, euphemistic, 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
    Synonyms:
    feces, defecation
  2. (slang) A first mate.
  3. A primary assistant; vice-leader.
    • After she had shown great promise over the last 10 years, he made her his number two.
  4. The batsman who opens alongside the number one, but does not face the first delivery.
  5. 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. 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. 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. A pencil with hardness level 2.
    • 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
    • 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
  9. (Philippines) mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations)
  10. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, two.

number two meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

number two in Tamil

இரண்டு

number two in Sanskrit

the number two
अक्षि ákṣi, अश्विन् aśvín

Synonyms of number two

Forms of number two

pluralnumber twos

Words formed from number two

Questions about number two

What does number two mean?
Number two means white, Caucasian.
What is number two in Tamil?
Number two in Tamil is இரண்டு. See Number two meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is number two?
Number two can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near number two in the dictionary

  1. number theorist
  2. number theorists
  3. number theory
  4. number three
  5. number threes
  6. number two
  7. number twos
  8. number'd
  9. number-cruncher
  10. number-crunchers
  11. number-crunching

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: number two (page history and authors); number two (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अक्षि (Sanskrit) (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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