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two-bob


a roughly circular track left from the tyres of a vehicle when floored on full lock. Compare circlework, doughnut, doughies, hoops.

Contributor's comments: [Perth informant] In the 50s and early 60s, we called [a doughnut] a "two-bob" -- "He's cutting a two-bob in the gravel". Metrics must have killed this off!