> Also, a common expression I remember hearing was "Gimme a couple-three-four of those" or something similar. Basically meaning "Gimme a few of those" or "Gimme between two and four of those." This was definitely a usage of "couple = two", since why would you have to say "couple-three-four" if "couple" could be taken to mean "two or more"?

This jogged a memory of mine. I knew someone who would say, "I'll be back in a couple-few hours." Whether that meant that he'd be back in two hours or a half-dozen hours, nobody knew. I concluded that the best thing was to assume that he meant, "I'll be back in a couple-times-a-few hours." I always thought the phrase was extremely odd and annoying, but maybe it was a geographic thing. This individual spent most of his later childhood and young adult life in Virginia, so maybe it's an East Coast thing?

Ell"Agrees with Dave's mom: A couple is two"myruh