Double-header
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Double-header is a noun meaning (sports) A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
Meaning
(sports) A pair of games played one after another between the same teams.
More Meanings
- A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
- A pair of sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
- (fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.
- (numismatics) A double-headed coin.
- (rail transport) A train pulled by two locomotives.
- (slang) Double penetration
Example Sentences
This afternoon we will have a double-header between the Bears and the Wolves, games at 3pm and 7:30pm.
The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.
The next jazz double-header at The Sound Lounge will feature the Leonie Cohen Trio and the Sam Hawkins Quartet
If this pipe is broken while running as the second engine of a double-header nothing will be lost as the operation of the distributing valve is then similar to that of a triple valve,[…].
Word Forms
- double-headers
- doubleheader
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include doubleheader, pair, triple-header, tripleheader, doubles, double.
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