number nine

English

Noun

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.

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