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- adjective one more than twenty-two; denoting a quantity consisting of twenty-three items or units; -- representing the number twenty-three as Arabic numerals.
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- noun The cardinal number
twenty-three .
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- adjective being three more than twenty
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one
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Prolagus commented on the word 23
Michael Jordan's most famous jersey number.
Also used by some Italian young, young teenagers as a coded message meaning TI AMO ("I love you"; 2-3 letters). UGH.
October 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word 23
Michael Jordan is in love with an Italian teenager?
October 5, 2008
skipvia commented on the word 23
According to Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball, the number of high-profile political sex scandals that have occurred since the Monica Lewinsky affair in 1988. That we know about, anyway.
EDIT: Now including this handy visual aid!
June 26, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word 23
psst... skipvia, the Lewinsky thing was in 1998, wasn't it?
June 29, 2009
skipvia commented on the word 23
Oops...right, c_b. 1988 would have put this in the Regan administration, and as we all know there was no hint of any kind of scandal during those years, unless of course you count illegally and covertly selling arms to Iran to illegally and covertly finance a revolution in Central America. At least there was no sex going on.
June 29, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word 23
That's right! Er... except for Gary Hart.
June 30, 2009