twenty-sixer

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noun

Canadian informal a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity

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Words nearby twenty-sixer

twenty-seven, twenty-seventh, Twenty-seventh Amendment, twenty-six, twenty-six counties, twenty-sixer, twenty-sixth, Twenty-sixth Amendment, twenty-third, Twenty-third Amendment, Twenty-third Psalm

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How to use twenty-sixer in a sentence

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
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Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
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A friendly twenty-something woman originally from Toronto said it best.
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By the end of the construction period, the number of deaths had reached roughly twenty percent of the workforce.
Riding Thailand’s WWII Death Railway|Liza Foreman|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.
Congress’ Gift That Keeps on Giving|P. J. O’Rourke|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
On four bells there are four times as many changes as on three; that is—four times six changes, which makes Twenty-four.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley