two-four

British  

noun

1. informal a box containing 24 bottles of beer

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Example Sentences

It contained both 16-bar melodies that the audience was used to, and innovative 12-bar sections, and mixed regular two-four time with the Afro-Cuban habanera dance rhythm.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2012

Cleared to climb from level one-three zero to level two-four zero by time one-six four-five.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2010

The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the engine-room two 6-cylinder combustion motors kept hammering away in a maddening two-four time.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

But in the dances in two-four time their way was more our way, something between a one-step, a mattchiche, and a tango, with strange fascinating steps of their own devising, a folk-dance manner....

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl