blues and twos
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Five minutes later, Bella, efficient as ever, radioed him back with an address near Hove station, about ten minutes drive away, going soberly, or ninety seconds with the blues and twos on."
- "The new directive says risks associated with the use of so-called ‘blues and twos’ by coastguard vehicles “need to be mitigated”."
- "“The hospital rang home and said somebody needs to get here quickly,” Coffey told the paper. “So my mum, who must have been in her eighties by then, came up and we did the flashing blues and twos down to King’s [College hospital] and I was operated on that night.”"
- "He glanced at his watch. “Blues and twos,” he said. “I want to get there before the train.” [...] They pulled out of the forecourt at the rear of the police office and drove straight across into Vauxhall Bridge Road, ignoring the one-way circuit, their siren and blue light carving a priority passage through the afternoon traffic."
- "If Mondo was alive, he'd be long gone, the ambulance hurtling blues and twos to the nearest hospital."
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Inflected Forms
blues-and-twos (alternative)