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number one

noun

oneself, especially one's own well-being or interests:
to look out for number one.
a person, company, etc., that is first in rank, order, or prestige:
Our team is number one.
urination: used especially by or with reference to children.

of the highest in quality, status, importance, etc.; first-rate:
a number one performance.
first in rank, order, or prestige:
the number one book on the bestseller list.

number one

the first in a series or sequence
an informal phrase for oneself myself
to look after number one
informal.
the most important person; leader, chief
he's number one in the organization
informal.
the bestselling pop record in any one week
euphemistic.
the act or an instance of urination
a haircut in which the hair is cut very close to the head with an electric shaver

First recorded in 1830–40

make / do / go number one, Informal. to urinate: used especially by or with reference to children.

The musical promise of eternal youth sold to the tune of 5.5 million copies and five number-one singles.

But after logging her eighth number-one single, Katy Perry might be the biggest pop star of her time.

My husband in my number-one priority and I his; why would we want to change this so we can be slaves to a child?

But the number-one thing rats want to be around is people, people who drop garbage on the ground.

The voting portion of the contest ended yesterday, and I swept the number-one spot.

What does a first-class A-number-one lawyer like Root care about facts if they ain't in his favor?

Roger hurried along with Astro to the number-one boat and climbed inside.

And she said these was A-Number-One beagles, being sure to get a rabbit if one was in the country.

You've got thirty tons of fuel—you want to find the compression ratio of the number-one firing-tube chamber—so what do you do?

Among them was his number-one boy, Kwong, who had served him faithfully for several years.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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