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double-barreling

double-barreling is the present participle and gerund of double-barrel.

Meaning of double-barrel

Verb

double-barrel (third-person singular simple present double-barrels, present participle (US) double-barreling or (UK) double-barrelling, simple past and past participle (US) double-barreled or (UK) double-barrelled)

  1. (transitive) To join with a hyphen or space.
    • You be the judge: my husband refuses to double-barrel our surnames. Should I take his last name? [title]2024 November 29, Georgina Lawton, “You be the judge: my husband refuses to double-barrel our surnames. Should I take his last name?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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Questions about double-barreling

What is double-barreling the present participle and gerund of?
Double-barreling is the present participle and gerund of double-barrel.

Words near double-barreling in the dictionary

  1. double-barreled
  2. double-barreled question
  3. double-barreled questions
  4. double-barreled shotgun
  5. double-barreled shotguns
  6. double-barreling
  7. double-barrelled
  8. double-barrelled shotgun
  9. double-barrelled shotguns
  10. double-barrelling
  11. double-barrels

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