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Head-to-head

adjective

Involving two persons; intimately private. Synonym: tete-a-tete. "A head-to-head conversation"

Inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition. Synonyms: neck and neck, nip and tuck. "The election was a nip and tuck affair"

adverb

Even or close in a race or competition or comparison. Synonyms: neck and neck, nip and tuck. "He won nip and tuck"

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... Turkey carpet, laid smoothly on the polished floor to be spurned aside by young dancers there; some impossible sea pictures, with patron saints in the clouds over mariners; an immense stuffed sofa, with an arm dividing it across the center;—the very place for those head-to-head conversations with young men which the girls of the house called "twosing." It was, in fact, the favorite "twosing" ...

— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood