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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
twosome
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ulrich and Fonda play a lovestruck twosome.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had stopped caring and replaced feeling with form, the patterned semblance of a twosome, a family life.
▪ If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.
▪ James Blennerhassett will also be performing with the tuneful twosome.
▪ Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.
▪ Their confidence grew into overwhelming proportions and in the opinion of many observers they swiftly became Manchester's tedious twosome.
▪ They were not a twosome anymore.
Wiktionary
twosome

a. 1 Being or constituting a pair; two. 2 twofold; double. 3 Performed by two individuals. n. A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.

WordNet
twosome

  1. n. two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]

  2. a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, duo, duet]

Usage examples of "twosome".

Drake had seen the scene often enough without wanting to play a part in it: dusky coconut culture serves as exotic backdrop for Anglo fantasies of global gaming and sexual derring-do under the rule that out in the non-Christian hinterlands there are no rules, no one is what he seems, and the congenial Welsh twosome you meet over rijsttafel in a restaurant whose wall murals depict a subtle range of lovemaking are, in actuality, ruthless agents of a foreign power who have selected you and your beautiful wife to play unwilling but critical roles in their horrid terrorist scheme.

These twosomes were tucked into the farther, darkest corners of the cavernous room, far from the sleepy coals of the hearth and the lanterns hanging nearby.

Drake had seen the scene often enough without wanting to play a part in it: dusky coconut culture serves as exotic backdrop for Anglo fantasies of global gaming and sexual derring-do under the rule that out in the non-Christian hinterlands there are no rules, no one is what he seems, and the congenial Welsh twosome you meet over rijsttafel in a restaurant whose wall murals depict a subtle range of lovemaking are, in actuality, ruthless agents of a foreign power who have selected you and your beautiful wife to play unwilling but critical roles in their horrid terrorist scheme.

She'll run a course midway between them until the twosome reach Quarre orbit, then shift over, catch up with the main convoy, and take them out of the system.

He's using storerooms and machine pods for his twosomes and threesomes.

We've been a solid foursome ever since we Millers moved to Spindrift, and we don't want that to change, but we want to be solid twosomes, too.

A few small clusters, mostly twosomes and foursomes, were thinly dispersed across the immense woody amphitheater, but the majority had drawn instinctively into a loose concentration along the part of the wall that held the bar.