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double-date

double-date is the alternative spelling of double date.

Meaning of double date

Verb

double date (third-person singular simple present double dates, present participle double dating, simple past and past participle double dated)

  1. To go on a double date.
    • The trouble was, I knew that guy Stradlater’s technique. That made it even worse. We once double-dated, in Ed Banky’s car, and Stradlater was in the back, with his date, and I was in the front with mine.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 64

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Forms of double-date

third-person singular presentdouble-dates
present participledouble-dating
past participledouble-dated
pastdouble-dated

Questions about double-date

What is double-date the alternative spelling of?
Double-date is the alternative spelling of double date.

Words near double-date in the dictionary

  1. double-crossings
  2. double-crostic
  3. double-crostics
  4. double-dactyl
  5. double-dactyls
  6. double-date
  7. double-dated
  8. double-dates
  9. double-dating
  10. double-dead meat
  11. double-deal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: double-date (page history and authors); double date (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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