Double-barrelled

Quick meaning: Double-barrelled is an adjective meaning Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.

More Meanings

1. Twofold, having a double purpose or nature.
2. (of names) Having two separate parts, often adjoined by a hyphen (or sometimes a space).
3. (figurative) Forceful, powerful (like a double-barrelled shotgun).

Example Sentences

Range Rover ran an ad campaign referring to grouse shooting with the line: “There’s only one car for the double-barrelled.”

Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.

Alexander Taylor, a native of Stonehaven who in the later forties went to Edinburgh, where he enjoyed a double-barrelled reputation as a rhymester and as an astronomer.

Skilling came to Enron with a double-barrelled reputation: on the one hand he was known to be a cold man with a taste for macho showing-off (Enron employees nicknamed him 'Darth Vader'). On the other hand he was said to be a genius .

Word Forms

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Synonyms for double-barrelled

Depending on context, synonyms include hyphenated, ambiguous, double-barreled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ambiguous, double-barreled, doubles, dual, double, twofold.

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