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Siamese twins

plural noun

  1. non-technical name for conjoined twins
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of Siamese twins1

C19: named after a famous pair of conjoined twins, Chang and Eng (1811–74), who were born in Siam
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"Trieste and Hamburg are Siamese twins. They are two important ports, both located on strategic corridors connecting the cold seas to the Mediterranean," he told Reuters.

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“My personal and my sociological lives are joined at the hip, heart and head, like Siamese twins,†she wrote in an autobiographical essay published in the 1996 collection “Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed.â€

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She argues that strange facts came first and plain facts came later; first, there were Siamese twins, hermaphrodites, furry babies and virgin births, then there was Boyle’s air pump.

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A newswoman and a private eye probe a murder confused by separated Siamese twins.

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Class and Race: the South’s—America’s—Siamese twins.

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