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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun..
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.
Order-maintenance crackdowns are not an alternative but rather an addition to the severe penalties that dominate criminal justice […] What we are left with today is a system of severe punishments for major offenders and severe treatments for minor offenders and ordinary citizens, especially minorities, a double-barreled approach with significant effects on large numbers of our citizenry.
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 ...
Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.
When the sheriff arrested [Lucy Hicks Anderson] one night, her double-barrelled reputation paid off—Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: He had scheduled a huge dinner party, which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy In gaol.
Range Rover ran an ad campaign referring to grouse shooting with the line: “There’s only one car for the double-barrelled.”
Use double-barrelled when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Double-barrelled means Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun..
Common synonyms include hyphenated, ambiguous, double-barreled.
Possible antonyms include single-barreled, single-barrelled.
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.
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