If you are hanging out with a couple of friends, you are hanging out with two friends. A couple is a pair or a twosome. As a verb, couple means "to pair or match."
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Noun
a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome"
Noun
a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"
Noun
something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
Noun
two items of the same kind
Noun
a small indefinite number; "he''s coming for a couple of days"
Verb
bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"
Verb
link together; "can we couple these proposals?"
Verb
make love; "Birds mate in the Spring"
Verb
form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"
a.
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or
tie; a coupler.
a.
Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a
pair; a brace.
a.
A male and female associated together; esp., a man and
woman who are married or betrothed.
a.
See Couple-close.
a.
One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a
voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
a.
Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount
but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around
parallel axes.
v.
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or
fasten together; to join.
v.
To join in wedlock; to marry.
v. i.
To come together as male and female; to copulate.
Couple
It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor.
I'll go in couples with her.2.
Adding one to one we have the complex idea of a couple.
[Ziba] met him with a couple of asses saddled.3.
Such were our couple, man and wife.
Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.4.
Couple
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach.2.
A parson who couples all our beggars.
Couple
That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
To come together as male and female; to copulate.
Usage Examples
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Other Usage ExamplesAs much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
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