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ones and twos

ones and twos noun: turntables used by DJs.

Noun

ones and twos pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) Turntables used by DJs.
    • During hip hop's early days when the DJ was busy with his ones and twos, MCs (masters of ceremony, microphone controllers, or movers of the crowd) spoke over the records by invoking the spirit of the party gods.2012, Ebony A. Utley, Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta's God, page 11
  2. (plural, plural-only) Small numbers of something.
    • But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the...1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157

Questions about ones and twos

What does ones and twos mean?
Ones and twos means turntables used by DJs.
What part of speech is ones and twos?
Ones and twos is a noun.

Words near ones and twos in the dictionary

  1. onerousness
  2. onerousnesses
  3. oners
  4. onery
  5. ones
  6. ones and twos
  7. ones and zeroes
  8. ones and zeros
  9. ones that go the other way
  10. ones to talk
  11. ones' complement

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