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Word: pair (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
  • informal A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
  • informal A double play, two outs recorded in one play
  • cards A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  • cricket A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
  • slang A pair of breasts
  • Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
  • Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
  • Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)

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Verb:

  • transitive To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
  • transitive To put two (people, sets or things) together.

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