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English
Noun
twopenny rope (plural twopenny ropes)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A rope stretched out in a low doss-house in order to suspend a kind of hammock of sacking on which a person can sleep.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary