English

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.