ten-twenty

or 10-20

[ ten-twen-tee, ‐-twuhn‐ ]

noun

, Slang.

1. location:

   My ten-twenty is State Street and Second Avenue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ten-twenty¹

Originally meaning “advise location” in ten code ( def )

Example Sentences

At ten-twenty, a group of people appeared onstage, carrying the blue banner of the Working Families Party, which had endorsed Nixon, Teachout, and Williams.

From The New Yorker

"Ten-twenty years ago, Malaysia was it," said a regional president of a European-based distribution company.

From Reuters

This result once obtained, the seven-thirty to Birmingham got him in at nine-thirty-five; the ten-twenty for the west was a capital train, and he would see the great dome of Mynydd Mawr before one o'clock.

From Project Gutenberg

With the slip of paper in my purse I took the ten-twenty train and was in town before midday.

From Project Gutenberg

Ten-elevenths cu. yd. pebbles at $1.085 $0.9864 Ten-twenty seconds cu. yd. sand at $0.00 0.0000 1 26 bbls. cement at $1.77 2.2302 Labor as above given 0.5861 Cost of plant distributed over total yardage 0.8400 ——— Total $4.6427 It will be noted that the sand cost nothing as it was dredged from the trench in which the pier was built, and paid for as dredging.

From Project Gutenberg