Twin Towers
Proper noun
Meaning
Twin Towers
The two main buildings of the World Trade Center, destroyed in terrorist attacks on 9/11, 2001.
Examples
When one is short, one should stand on a box to get a better view. The Twin Towers is [sic] to our ego what the box is to the shorties.
It is a blatant, open secret that this attack on the Twin Towers was done by George Bush himself.
We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq. [The events] swung American public opinion in our favor.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.