Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being up two flights, namely, from the street door: as, the two-pair front chamber.
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Examples
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He knocked me out when I had A-J and hit top pair and he some worthless bottom two-pair.
RIP: Hook, a great chef, a bad poker player Peter Schorsch 2009
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Guido was hoping for and banking on a far better hand than the two-pair he got.
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Being seated at dinner the next day off the cold leg of mutton that Smithers had admired so the day before, and Gus as usual having his legs under our mahogany, a hackney-coach drove up to the door, which we did not much heed; a step was heard on the floor, which we hoped might be for the two-pair lodger, when who should burst into the room but Mrs. Hoggarty herself!
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When you was ill, who forgot the natral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?
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If he decided to keep the pair and the jack and draw substitutes for the other two, he'd have a one-in-five chance of getting another jack to make a two-pair hand.
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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Suppose she made a fine grimace, and said, “Most painful as my position is, most deeply as I feel for my William, yet truth must prevail, and I deeply lament to state that the beloved partner of my life DID commit the flagitious act with which he is charged, and is at this present moment located in the two-pair back, up the chimney, whither it is my duty to lead you.”
Roundabout Papers 2006
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"So far," he said, "I got very lucky with aces, when I rivered a higher two-pair to double up."
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Miller accused Dembski of a retrospective fallacy, which is like “equating the odds of drawing two pairs in poker with the odds of drawing a particular two-pair hand - say a pair of red queens, a pair of black 10s and the ace of clubs… demanding a particular outcome, as opposed to a functional outcome,…”
Dembski's Obsessive Complaints of Obsession - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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These feature sets actually use the in-place, two-pair station wire.
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This was no poverty-stricken band of refugees chivvied along by police; here each family had its own wagon ... long, sweeping, boat-tight Conestogas drawn by three-pair teams and housed in sturdy glass canvas square and businesslike Studebakers with steel bodies, high mudcutter wheels, and pulled by one or two-pair teams.
Tunnel In The Sky Heinlein, Robert A. 1955
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