Two-to-one

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pawnbroker's sign of three balls. UK, obsolete, slang

    "“A pawnbroker!” cried Dick, with a loud laugh; whereupon the two-to-one lady blushed up to the eyes and whispered to her friend, “How could they know us?”"

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"The odds are two-to-one that the Reds win."

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