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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A .22 calibre pistol or rifle.

   "He wore a crazed expression / As he waded in the car / For some ammo and his sawn-off twenty-two."

2. 2
   a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle) wordnet
3. 3
   the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   being two more than twenty wordnet

Numeral

1. 1
   The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22.

Synonyms

All synonyms

.22222222two and twentyxxii

Example

More examples

"There are twenty-two of us in all."

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