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English
Noun
two-to-one
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The pawnbroker's sign of three balls.
1819, Felix Mac Donough, The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners, page 182:“A pawnbroker!” cried Dick, with a loud laugh; whereupon the two-to-one lady blushed up to the eyes and whispered to her friend, “How could they know us?”
1877, John Diprose, New standard song book and reciter, page 194:A song I'm going to sing you, / And presently I'll bring you, / Where your conscience I hope won't sting you, / — At the sign of the Two-to-one!
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary