What is the meaning of PAIR. Phrases containing PAIR
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A poker hand consisting of a pair of aces and a pair of eights. Traditionally, Wild Bill Hickok was holding this hand when he was shot dead by Jack McCall. Some sources dispute the hand, saying that it really contained two jacks, not aces and two eights.
A pair of chaps strictly for show. Might be worn for the grand entry parade at a rodeo.
A flight of stairs.
Pair of nickers is British slang for two pounds sterling.
Shoes. Nice pair of yabba's mate. For them what don't have a classical education, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" was the catch phrase of Fred Flintstone.
Two drinks of whiskey.
They always come in pairs
Conductor's punch
the term applied to the young English and Irish apprentices to the fishery. They were generally engaged for two summers and the intervening winter for about 18 pounds, their keep and a pair of long boots or a small child
C $100, = $200
cod roe (cod spawn looked like a pair of pants – French pants or shorts “Culottesâ€)
A substitute word for marriage. The term comes from pair and marriage, this term was developed, in a effort to take the argument, away from gay marriage. That has been a source for the religious right wing people to defeat gay rights. An officail recognition of partners to honor the union of lesbian or gay male.
A span of horses consists of a pair that are very much alike and harnessed side by side.
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
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In Australia, when we were kids, and most people had tin/iron roofs, we used to throw a rock on the roof, and run like hell!! Used to make a helluva noise, especially on a clear night. It was worse if you were inside the house...a good throw meant the rock would clatter down the roof, until it reached the gutter, or fell over the edge. (ed: Submitted by 'Granny' in BP Userforum - thanks Granny)
Lodger
hallucinogenic mushrooms containing psilocybin
Anilingus; i.e. oral stimulation of the anus with the tongue in order to relax it, usually immediately prior to anal penetration.
PCP
Fag tag is American slang for the outside loop at the back of a standard American button−downOxford shirt.
Arty roller is Australian rhyming slang for collar.
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n.
A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
n.
A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
v. t.
To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
n.
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
v. i.
The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.
pl.
of Pair
v. i.
See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.
a.
Not paired; not suited or matched.
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Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pair
n.
Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
n.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
n. pl.
A pair of blacksmith's tongs.
n.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
v. i.
Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
a.
Having but one pair of leaflets; -- said of a pinnate leaf.
imp. & p. p.
of Pair
n.
A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
n.
Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
n.
An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
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