Meanings
plural two-fours · alternative two four · alternative 2-4 · alternative 24
- CanadaslangA case of twenty-four bottles or cans of beer.
Happy and me chip in together and buy a two-four of Labatt's plus a couple of bags of potato chips.
1980, Sundogs: Stories from Saskatchewan, page 851 more example
“Winston, Maxine and I are going to the beer store to buy a two four, would you mind staying here with baby until I get back?”
2007, Michell Downey, Beauty and the Beast Within, page 233
Origin
From the two digits used to form the number twenty-four, decimal 24, in place notation.
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