number nine

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Noun

number nine (plural number nines)

1. (cricket) The batsman who bats ninth.
2. (soccer) The centre forward
3. (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