# What exactly is a "two-way"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 13, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123 "2003-11-13T22:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123/1 "2003-11-13T22:45:40Z")

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In Bowling For Soup’s “The Girl all the Bad Guys Want” Nola is mentioned having/wearing a ‘two way’.

What the heck is it? I’m thinking maybe a two way pager, but I don’t hear people ‘wearing’ pagers so much as ‘carrying’ them…and who uses pagers these days anyway? 😕

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**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123/2 "2003-11-13T23:03:51Z")

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I suspect it’s a two way radio, or walkie-talkie.

These were breifly popular about a year or so ago as consumer electronics, and then sort of fizzled out of vogue… possibly because of Nextel’s walkie-talkie features.

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**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123/3 "2003-11-13T23:48:09Z")

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I would guess, given the context, there’s something sexual involved.

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**Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123/4 "2003-11-14T00:18:50Z")

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Two way pager. My wife used to work at a company that sold both the hardware and the service. She report that they are very popular with the hip-hop crowd. She always points them out in the videos.

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**Author:** ![Mike.V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike.V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike.V)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-two-way/213123/5 "2003-11-14T00:23:39Z")

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According to [Urban Dictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=two+way&f=1), it is either the aformentioned communications device or a two-headed dildo. I’m assuming its the latter because a female could easily wear it.