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Number one

noun

A reference to yourself or myself etc.; 'take care of number one' means to put your own interests first.

The first or highest in an ordering or series. Synonym: first.

The first element in a countable series. Synonyms: first, number 1.

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"Number one" Quotes from Famous Books

... serpents, and are laughing me to scorn. Are they ghosts? are they demons, or empty phantoms? Get away! Well, if you won't move out of my path, I'll stamp downright upon your green and blue snouts. Everybody must take care of number one, even if a devil is to be the sufferer." He ...

— The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano - Tales from the German of Tieck • Ludwig Tieck

... you to the inn!" said Corporal Derval, when the cheering was over. "We will drink the health of Number One!" ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... on that heater in chamber number one. It's burned a bearing. Change it, and hurry up ...

— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell

... suppose," Sam Anders said from beside him, "was Lesson Number One for degenerate savages like us: Gerns, like gods, are not to be hindered ...

— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... leaving sometimes a big lodging-bill and little luggage; Jenny who presently had to nurse Mart's wife and baby, just as she expected, for Mart lost that job, and the house he had rented, and the furniture he hadn't paid for and that was seized just when most needed. So baby Number One first saw the light under the roof that Jenny's hard work paid for,—a lodger having opportunely "skipped." And all the while she managed to keep up her study and practice, and to do little odd jobs in copying, sitting far into the dawn ...

— A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King

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