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• My mother-in-law is the only person I ever heard use this (she grew up in Arizona if that helps place it). To her, it meant two or three (literally a couple or three), which as the person before me noted, translates into a few or a small number. Today it could be considered functionally redundant because "a couple" now, according to Merriam Webster, encompasses the meaning of "an indefinite small number."

  I just want a good couple three." - A man from Grafton, NH, USA 9/12/16. (I would've mapped it but the site won't let me register my location.)

  Last edited on Sep 12 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 21 2016.

noun - uncountable

• an unspecified small number.

  Last edited on Jul 24 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

adjective

• A hair-dye mishap.
  
  Its a compound word from Dye and Disaster. Specifically hair-dye.
  
  "Was dying darker to try to cover the old blondie bits at the mid to bottom, and it didn't work. I like the darker colour but bits of the blondie brassy colour are still coming through. Total dye saster!"

  Last edited on Jul 21 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 21 2016.