two-up-two-down

noun

A traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.

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Meanings

nountwo-up-two-down (plural two-up-two-downs)

plural two-up-two-downs

  1. UKA traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.

    Mansions and workers' two-up-two-downs sprawled all over the town, higgledy-piggledy.

    1992, Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world
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    Houses from Second to Fifth Street were two-up-two-downs and had few amenities, no bathrooms, and were therefore cheap to rent. Some had no hot water.

    2005, Mark Crinson, Urban memory: history and amnesia in the modern city
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Chicago

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