Meaning of Twins | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Gemini.
2. A woman's breasts.
   plural, plural-only, slang
3. The Minnesota Twins team.

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Examples

“Then to make matters worse, you try to squeeze the twins, which seemed to figure out that gravity does work, into a dress or blouse, exposing enough cleavage that forges a valley big enough that John Wayne could drive cattle through it from his movie Red River.”

“Two Twins won a Gold Glove Award last year.”

“Geminy, or the Twins, rule the ſhoulders, arms, and hands, & theſe three are ſigns of yᵉ ſpring.”

“In the twins, the first holds an arrow, the second a palm-branch.”

“(The Constellation of the Twins was thought peculiarly lucky.) Perhaps after a time it was discovered that twins sometimes run in families, and in such cases really do bring fertility with them.”

“Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.”

“For they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales.”

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