Meaning of couple three | Babel Free

Definitions

Two or three or a similarly small number of.

US, colloquial

Examples

“So he brought in a full quart of whiskey, poured part of it out, left a couple, three inches left in the bottle.”

“I figure we might make it to the bed--if you're set on being traditional--in a couple, three hours.”

“One day not met, yet, nor even on that street alone has been sighted, then a couple three days later after the fullness of fades, they go.”

“Then why don't you let me take the paper over for a couple-three days and ask Avis to finish the job?”

“General Chalmers is camped a couple-three miles in back of us.”

“Cops picked her up at the Greyhound station a couple-three winters ago, shivering, hungry, dirty as a gutter rat.”

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