number nine

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number nine (plural number nines)

(cricket) The batsman who bats ninth.
(soccer) The centre forward
(dated, British Army military slang) A laxative pill.
- 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 310 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
  A number nine pill was all they could hope for if they went sick.

Coordinate terms

number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number six, number seven, number eight, number ten, and so on

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