A couple three refers vaguely to a small number of things, usually two or three, or maybe a few more. Jennifer in Tucson, Arizona, says her father often used the phrase, although it left her guessing when he’d ask for a couple three nails. The...
Following up on our conversation about indefinite hyperbolic numerals like forty-eleven and zillion, we discuss humpty-twelve. Another slang term used to denote a large quantity is telephone numbers, which can be applied to “an excessive amount of...