Definition of "number two" []

• Informal The act of defecating. (noun)
• Informal Feces. (noun)

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• "Their job that day was to take the number two D-558-2 research airplane up to an altitude of a little over 30,000 feet and then drop it so HSFS research pilot Jack McKay could take it through a flight investigation of its vertical tail loads."
• "Indeed, in late 1962 he told his close aide Kenneth ODonnell that he wanted to energize State by moving Bundy to the number two position there, with White House counsel Ted Sorensen assuming the national security adviser role."
• "He promoted two of Bundys aides to the rank of deputy: Robert Komer as across-the-board number two man; and Francis Bator, who had assumed the international economic policy portfolio after Carl Kaysen returned to Cambridge."