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two-up-two-down

two-up-two-down noun: a traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.

Noun

two-up-two-down (plural two-up-two-downs)

  1. (UK) A traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.
    • Mansions and workers' two-up-two-downs sprawled all over the town, higgledy-piggledy.1992, Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world
    • Houses from Second to Fifth Street were two-up-two-downs and had few amenities, no bathrooms, and were therefore cheap to rent. Some had no hot water.2005, Mark Crinson, Urban memory: history and amnesia in the modern city

Forms of two-up-two-down

pluraltwo-up-two-downs

Questions about two-up-two-down

What does two-up-two-down mean?
Two-up-two-down means a traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.
What part of speech is two-up-two-down?
Two-up-two-down is a noun.
What is the plural of two-up-two-down?
The plural of two-up-two-down is two-up-two-downs.

Words near two-up-two-down in the dictionary

  1. two-tone
  2. two-tongued
  3. two-top
  4. two-tops
  5. two-up
  6. two-up-two-down
  7. two-up-two-downs
  8. two-way
  9. two-way communication
  10. two-way communications
  11. two-way joist slab

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