Twin Towers

the Twin Towers pl (plural only)

1. The two main buildings of the World Trade Center, destroyed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11, 2001.
2. (metonymic) The attack itself.
   • 2009, Dan Pietsch, No Comfort, Idyllwild, California: Cabin Fever Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:

     Ever since the Twin Towers, we all know that heroes come in uniforms of all kinds.

• World Trade Center (1973–2001) § North and South Towers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia