Talk:twenty

Does "twenty pushups" really need a separate sense? Surely it's just "twenty somethings", in a specific context. 109.154.74.120 22:31, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June 2018

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twenty

"(military) A set of twenty push-ups." This is not specific to the number; any number can be used, e.g. "give me forty". Equinox ◑ 01:07, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Delete. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:52, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Sense deleted. SemperBlotto (talk) 04:03, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

BTW: the example sentence used "ric" as a slang term for "recruit" ("give me twenty, ric!"): is that real? We don't have it. I couldn't find it even in a Google Web search and even dialling the Equinox creativity meter up to about 8. Equinox ◑ 04:04, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

I suspect there's a lot of military slang that doesn't make it into print. There seems to be a general tendency to make everything as short as possible in the military, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a real word that just hasn't found its way into a book yet. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 19:41, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

I added a sense to give me to cover this expression.--Father Goose (talk) 03:57, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Missing sense?

Chambers 1908 also defines twenty as "an indefinite number". Perhaps it used to be something vaguer like couple or dozen? Equinox ◑ 04:34, 1 December 2018 (UTC)