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1. puhekieltä A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two penny pennies thrown in the air.

2. 1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qejE8CajJGcC&pg=PA242&dq=%22two-up%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XlymUIj0IIqViQfO-4GACQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22two-up%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 242,

From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.

3. 1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=i6qjy5G-L-wC&pg=PA66&dq=%22two-up%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XlymUIj0IIqViQfO-4GACQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22two-up%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 66,

The origins of two-up remain obscure. It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century. In Australia pitch and toss was first recorded in the 1850s on the Victorian goldfields, and in New Zealand as a street game on the West Coast in the early 1870s. Two-up evolved as a variant, becoming popular in Australia in the early 1890s, and in New Zealand a year or two later, as labouring men from both countries traversed the Tasman Sea in search of work.

4. 2008, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XyGnAPvXZnYC&pg=PT290&dq=%22two-up%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BHCmUNzFH-uciAfG8oDoDA&redir_esc=y page 280,

Perversely, Scorps chooses not to punt on Anzac Day and won′t go near two-up, probably because his losses will be too public.

5. puhekieltä Having two document pages per printed page.

6. puhekieltä With two people aboard.

''Some of us rode two-up as we travelled in convoy to the beach.

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